Re:AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time
by ffsm8 on Wednesday October 22, 2025 @11:23AM
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Literally constantly? It takes both careful prompting and throughout double-checking to really notice however. Because often the links also exist, just don't represent what the LLM made it sound like.
And the worst part about the people unironically thinking they can use it for "research" is, that it essentially supercharges confirmation bias.
The inefficient sidequests you do while researching is generally what actually gives you the ability to really reason about a topic.
If you instead just laser focus on the tidbits you prompted with... Well, your opinion is a lot less grounded.
Re:AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time
by edavison1 on Wednesday October 22, 2025 @01:20PM
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Ran into this the other day researching a brewery. Google AI summary referenced a glowing NYT profile of its beers. The linked article was not in fact about that brewery, but an entirely different one. Brewery I was researching has never been mentioned in the NYT. Complete invention at that point and has 'stolen' the good press from a different place and just fed the user what they wanted to see, namely a recommendation for the thing I was googling.
Re:AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time
by terminalshort on Wednesday October 22, 2025 @12:04PM
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It's a huge issue. No wonder AI hallucinates when it trains on this kind of crap.
Also, is attributing, without any citation, ChatGPT's preference for Wikipedia to a reprisal to an active lawsuit a significant issue? Or do the authors get off scot-free because they caged it in "we don't know, but maybe it's the case"?