‘Significant inaccuracies’ found in AI-generated news summaries: BBC
- Four major artificial intelligence chatbots inaccurately summarize news stories, according to research carried out by the BBC.
- The BBC report stated that the chatbots contained 'significant inaccuracies' and distortions.
- Nine out of ten AI chatbot responses about news queries contained at least some issues, BBC research has claimed.
- The research indicated that the 'companies developing Gen AI tools are playing with fire.
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Over half of LLM-written news summaries have “significant issues”—BBC analysis
Here at Ars, we've done plenty of coverage of the errors and inaccuracies that LLMs often introduce into their responses. Now, the BBC is trying to quantify the scale of this confabulation problem, at least when it comes to summaries of its own news content. In an extensive report published this week, the BBC analyzed how four popular large language models used or abused information from BBC articles when answering questions about the news. The …
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