A study by the Columbia Journalism Review investigated the ability of eight AI search engines to accurately cite news sources.
The findings revealed significant shortcomings across all tested platforms, including a tendency to provide incorrect information with unwarranted confidence and fabricate citations or link to incorrect versions of articles.
Premium AI models were found to offer more confidently inaccurate answers than their free counterparts. Furthermore, several chatbots appeared to disregard publishers' instructions in their robots.txt files, and content licensing agreements did not guarantee accurate sourcing.
Overall, the research highlights a widespread problem with AI search engines struggling to properly attribute and link to original news content, potentially harming both publishers and users.
Source: https://www.cjr.org/tow_center/we-compared-eight-ai-search-engines-theyre-all-bad-at-citing-news.php
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