BBC study revealing scale of AI-generated news inaccuracies is 'crucial checkpoint' but we shouldn't write the tech off

BBC study revealing scale of AI-generated news inaccuracies is 'crucial checkpoint' but we shouldn't write the tech off

The BBC’s recent study into AI-generated news summaries is a sobering reminder of the potential and profound limitations of generative AI. While artificial intelligence is often lauded as the inevitable next step in media evolution, the findings from this trial expose a more unsettling truth: AI, in its current form, is incapable of reliably processing and presenting accurate news. BBC News granted temporary access to its articles to four promin…

AI summaries of scientific research oversimplify findings

Artificial intelligence chatbots driven by large language models (LLMs) tend to exaggerate the scope of research when summarising scientific papers, according to Dutch and UK researchers. They analysed 4,900 chatbot-generated summaries of scientific abstracts (which are themselves a short summary at the start of a scientific paper), and found they were five times more likely to overgeneralise findings than human experts. The researchers did not …