The BBC and the European Broadcasting Union have produced a large study of how well AI chatbots handle summarising the news. In short: badly.
The researchers asked ChatGPT, Copilot, Gemini, and Perplexity about current events. 45% of the chatbot answers had at least one major issue. 31% were seriously wrong and 20% had major inaccuracies, from hallucinations or outdated sources. This is across multiple languages and multiple countries.
The AI distortions are “significant and systemic in nature.”
And those people will vote based on that misinformation. They will believe a worldview filled with that misinformation and the resulting behavior will hurt everyone around them.