{"id":136155,"date":"2025-10-31T12:50:50","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T20:50:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/10\/31\/stats-of-the-week-right-place-wrong-time\/"},"modified":"2025-10-31T12:50:50","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T20:50:50","slug":"stats-of-the-week-right-place-wrong-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/10\/31\/stats-of-the-week-right-place-wrong-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Stat(s) Of The Week: Right Place, Wrong Time"},"content":{"rendered":"
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As more people use AI-powered searches to get a quick handle on the latest news, it\u2019s worth considering how reliable the information they\u2019re getting is.<\/p>\n

Not very, it turns out.<\/p>\n

According to research recently published by the BBC and the European Broadcasting Union, AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time.<\/p>\n

The report, \u201cNews Integrity in AI Assistants<\/a>,\u201d is based on a study involving 22 public service media organizations in 18 countries to assess how four common AI assistants \u2014 OpenAI\u2019s ChatGPT, Microsoft\u2019s Copilot, Google\u2019s Gemini, and Perplexity \u2014 answer questions about news and current affairs.<\/p>\n

Each organization asked a set of 30 news-related questions (e.g., \u201cWho is the pope?\u201d \u201cCan Trump run for a third term<\/a>?\u201d \u201cDid Elon Musk do a Nazi salute<\/a>?\u201d). More than 2,700 AI-generated responses were then assessed by journalists against five criteria: accuracy, sourcing, distinguishing opinion from fact, editorialization, and context.<\/p>\n

Overall, 81% of responses were found to have issues, and 45% had at least one \u201csignificant\u201d issue. Sourcing was the most pervasive problem, with 31% providing misleading or incorrect attributions or omitting sources entirely. In addition, 20% of responses contained \u201cmajor accuracy issues,\u201d such as factual errors, outdated information, or outright hallucinations.<\/p>\n

Largest study of its kind shows AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time \u2013 regardless of language or territory<\/a> [BBC]<\/p>\n

But see <\/em>Vals AI\u2019s Latest Benchmark Finds Legal and General AI Now Outperform Lawyers in Legal Research Accuracy<\/a> [LawSites]<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

The post Stat(s) Of The Week: Right Place, Wrong Time<\/a> appeared first on Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

As more people use AI-powered searches to get a quick handle on the latest news, it\u2019s worth considering how reliable the information they\u2019re getting is.<\/p>\n

Not very, it turns out.<\/p>\n

According to research recently published by the BBC and the European Broadcasting Union, AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time.<\/p>\n

The report, \u201cNews Integrity in AI Assistants<\/a>,\u201d is based on a study involving 22 public service media organizations in 18 countries to assess how four common AI assistants \u2014 OpenAI\u2019s ChatGPT, Microsoft\u2019s Copilot, Google\u2019s Gemini, and Perplexity \u2014 answer questions about news and current affairs.<\/p>\n

Each organization asked a set of 30 news-related questions (e.g., \u201cWho is the pope?\u201d \u201cCan Trump run for a third term<\/a>?\u201d \u201cDid Elon Musk do a Nazi salute<\/a>?\u201d). More than 2,700 AI-generated responses were then assessed by journalists against five criteria: accuracy, sourcing, distinguishing opinion from fact, editorialization, and context.<\/p>\n

Overall, 81% of responses were found to have issues, and 45% had at least one \u201csignificant\u201d issue. Sourcing was the most pervasive problem, with 31% providing misleading or incorrect attributions or omitting sources entirely. In addition, 20% of responses contained \u201cmajor accuracy issues,\u201d such as factual errors, outdated information, or outright hallucinations.<\/p>\n

Largest study of its kind shows AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time \u2013 regardless of language or territory<\/a> [BBC]<\/p>\n

But see <\/em>Vals AI\u2019s Latest Benchmark Finds Legal and General AI Now Outperform Lawyers in Legal Research Accuracy<\/a> [LawSites]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As more people use AI-powered searches to get a quick handle on the latest news, it\u2019s worth considering how reliable the information they\u2019re getting is. Not very, it turns out. According to research recently published by the BBC and the European Broadcasting Union, AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time. The report, \u201cNews […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":136156,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-136155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-above_the_law"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xira.com\/p\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/stat-of-the-week-image-bqbgBG.jpg?fit=300%2C225&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136155\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/136156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}