Re:AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time
by FooBarWidget on Wednesday October 22, 2025 @11:47AM
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I wouldn't even say BBC is a good source to cite. For foreign news, BBC is outright biased. Though I don't have any good suggestions for what an LLM should cite instead.
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Re:AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time
by marcosdumay on Wednesday October 22, 2025 @11:57AM
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Well, if it's describing news content, it should cite the original news article.
Re:AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time
by 542458 on Wednesday October 22, 2025 @11:51AM
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Reuters or AP IMO. Both take NPOV and accuracy very seriously. Reuters famously wouldn't even refer to the 9/11 hijackers as terrorists, as they wanted to remain as value-neutral as possible.
Re:AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time
by sdoering on Wednesday October 22, 2025 @12:01PM
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In addition to that dpa from Germany for German news. Yes, dpa has had issues, but it is in my experience by far the source trying to be as non partisan as possible. Not necessarily when they sell their online feed business, though.
Disclaimer: Started my career in onine journalism/aggregation. Hada 4 week internship with the dpa online daughter some 16 years ago.
Re:AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time
by FooBarWidget on Wednesday October 22, 2025 @12:27PM
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It's been a long time since 2001. Are they still value-neutral today on foreign news? It seems to me like they're heavily biased towards western POV nowadays.
Re:AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time
by driverdan on Wednesday October 22, 2025 @01:19PM
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Yes, Reuters has good, unbiased international coverage.
Re:AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time
by EA-3167 on Wednesday October 22, 2025 @11:49AM
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Ground News or something similar that at least attempts to aggregate, compare ownership, bias, and factuality.
Imo at least
Re:AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time
by dontlaugh on Wednesday October 22, 2025 @11:52AM
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The BBC has a strong right wing bias within the UK too.
There’s no such thing as unbiased.
Re:AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time
by gadders on Wednesday October 22, 2025 @11:53AM
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Apt user name.
The BBC is the broadcast wing of the Guardian.
Re:AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time
by AndrewStephens on Wednesday October 22, 2025 @12:00PM
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I love how everyone seems to agree that the BBC is horribly biased but there is fierce debate as to whether it is run by the ghost of Joseph Goebbels or if the staff start each day singing The Red Flag.
Perhaps the real bias was inside us the whole time.
Re:AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time
by gadders on Wednesday October 22, 2025 @12:06PM
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Yes, that would be the Centrist Dad take.
Re:AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time
by rsynnott on Wednesday October 22, 2025 @12:41PM
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This isn't a new issue; Saturday Night Fry (the predecessor to a Bit of Fry and Laurie) was making fun of it in the 1980s. The BBC's commitment to 'balance' has always lead it in rather weird directions.
Re:AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time
by dontlaugh on Wednesday October 22, 2025 @12:28PM
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The BBC is famous for platforming Farage and smearing Corbyn.
The Guardian is at best centre-right.
Next you’ll try to convince me that Starmer’s Labour is left wing or the Lock Ness monster is real.
Re:AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time
by hunterpayne on Wednesday October 22, 2025 @02:36PM
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If this is an honest take, you probably have to look to the right to see Mao's ghost. Maybe talk to other humans in real life, you might be shocked about your actual place on the political spectrum.
Re:AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time
by dontlaugh on Wednesday October 22, 2025 @02:42PM
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I talk to people all the time. There are both communists and fascists in the UK on the two extremes.
However, that is currently not reflected in electoral politics or the media. The farthest left are currently the Greens, at best centre-left. On the right and far right there are Tories and Reform.
Re:AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time
by rkachowski on Wednesday October 22, 2025 @04:55PM
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You're downvoted but quite accurate. I would like to see this statistic compared against how often the BBC misrepresents news content, and the backflips that come with defining such a metric.