ChatGPT's News Feed Could Be Fast & Convenient — But Can You Trust It?
In 1966, computer scientist Joseph Weizenbaum created one of the first-ever chatbots, ELIZA, and designed it to function as a psychotherapist. Our investigation We conducted an experiment to evaluate ChatGPT's tendency to generate misinformation about four recent events: Axel Rudakubana's father's alleged ties to the Rwandan genocide, tennis player Jannik Sinner's doping ban, claims that Trump called for a ban on carmine, and the Russian invasion of Ukraine. When asking the chatbot whether Keir Starmer had represented Alphonse Rudakubana in court, we could generate similar responses to those shown in screenshots posted on X using ChatGPT 4o-mini. "Unlike search engines, which provide links to multiple sources, chatbots generate direct answers, often without citation," explained McKenzie Sadeghi, an AI and Foreign Influence editor for NewsGuard, a company that provides reliability ratings of news outlets and platforms. When asked whether people should be dissuaded from using chatbots to retrieve information on breaking news, Sadeghi said: "They should be used with a very cognizant understanding of the issues and limitations at play here."
Discover Related
Trump official set up more than 20 national security crisis Signal chats: report
OpenAI's ChatGPT down again as Ghibli trend overwhelms chatbot
ChatGPT down as users flock to AI platform to make Studio Ghibli images
ChatGPT down as users flock to AI platform to make Studio Ghibli images
ChatGPT down in US and UK after significant outage at OpenAI; netizens react
No notice to X on Grok AI responses, govt. official says; informal discussions under way
’TruthTell Hackathon’ finalists show promise in battling misinformation
OpenAI Launches GPT-4.5 for ChatGPT—It’s Huge and Compute-Intensive
North Korea seen using ChatGPT for AI studies amid cybercrime fears: Report
Why AI chatbots ‘hallucinate’ and what researchers are doing about it
ChatGPT vs Perplexity: Sam Altman praises Aravind Srinivas’ Deep Research AI; ‘Proud of you’
ChatGPT maker OpenAI taking claims of data breach ‘seriously’
OpenAI unveils ChatGPT.com, a Google-like search engine, without the need for login
Indian finance ministry bans ChatGPT, DeepSeek for employees amid data security concerns
OpenAI tailors version of ChatGPT for US government
Microsoft probes if DeepSeek-linked group improperly obtained OpenAI data, Bloomberg News reports
Microsoft probing if DeepSeek-linked group improperly obtained OpenAI data: Report
DeepSeek AI: How to use? Why is US alarmed by the rise of China’s AI? Explained