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AI chatbots unable to accurately summarise news, BBC finds (www.bbc.com)
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[-] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Turns out, spitting out words when you don't know what anything means or what "means" means is bad, mmmmkay.

It got journalists who were relevant experts in the subject of the article to rate the quality of answers from the AI assistants.

It found 51% of all AI answers to questions about the news were judged to have significant issues of some form.

Additionally, 19% of AI answers which cited BBC content introduced factual errors, such as incorrect factual statements, numbers and dates.

Introduced factual errors

Yeah that's . . . that's bad. As in, not good. As in - it will never be good. With a lot of work and grinding it might be "okay enough" for some tasks some day. That'll be another 200 Billion please.

this post was submitted on 11 Feb 2025
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