AI is bad at news, BBC finds

From misconstruing jokes and memes as facts to outright hallucinating output that's not grounded in any existing information, artificial intelligence applications are infamously poor arbiters of reality. Today, the BBC's published the results of a small-scale research study that quantifies the issue. In a review of a handful of AI chatbots including Gemini and ChatGPT, journalists rated more than half of the apps' summaries of news stories and found that more than half had "significant issues of some form."