‘I’m unable to’: how generative AI chatbots respond when asked for the latest news

We test how well ChatGPT and Bard (now Gemini) provide the latest news to users who ask for the top five headlines from specific outlets. Based on analysis of 4,500 headline requests (in 900 outputs) in January/February 2024, we find that (i) ChatGPT returned non-news output 52–54% of the time (an ‘...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Fletcher, R, Adami, M, Nielsen, RK
Format: Report
Language:English
Published: Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism 2024