Popular chatbots amplify misinformation

NewsGuard’s audit of the 10 leading generative AI tools and their propensity to repeat false claims on topics in the news reveals the rate of publishing false information nearly doubled — now providing false claims to news prompts more than one third of the time. Photo illustration by Aïda Amer / Axios

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The rate at which chatbots are spreading false information doubled in the last year, according to a report that NewsGuard shared first for English-speaking readers with Axios.

Since NewsGuard's last report in August 2024, AI makers have updated chatbots to respond to more prompts instead of declining to answer, and given them the ability to access the web.

Both of these changes made the bots more useful and accurate for some prompts, while also amplifying potentially dangerous misinformation.

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READ THE NEWSGUARD REPORT: AI False Information Rate Nearly Doubles in One Year

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