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ON OCTOBER 27, A RECENT STUDY COORDINATED BY THE EUROPEAN BROADCASTING UNION (EBU) AND LED BY THE BRITISH BROADCASTING CORPORATION (BBC) FOUND THAT, TODAY, ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE ASSISTANTS, WHO ARE A DAILY SOURCE OF INFORMATION FOR MILLIONS OF PEOPLE, OFTEN DISTORT NEWS CONTENT IN TESTING WHICH LANGUAGE, REGION OR PLATFORM. THIS UNPRECEDENTED, BROADEST AND LARGEST INTERNATIONAL STUDY WAS LAUNCHED IN NAPLES BY THE EBU PRESS CONFERENCE. TWENTY-TWO PUBLIC MEDIA ORGANIZATIONS (PSMS) FROM 18 COUNTRIES AND 14 LANGUAGES PARTICIPATED IN THE STUDY, REVEALING FOUR..

December 14, 2011 - The BBC published a blog post today (December 14) reporting that Apple's Apple Intelligence notification digest feature is "hallucinating," generating factually incorrect summaries that misinterpret news information, and that Apple has been contacted to resolve the issue. The company has contacted Apple to resolve the issue and expressed concerns about the feature. 1AI cites a blog post that describes how iOS 18's notification summaries misinterpreted its news headlines and drew completely wrong conclusions. In a story covering a murder, Luigi Mangion...

Tencent Research Institute released the report "Shaping News: 7 Changes in Journalism in the Era of AI", which discusses the impact of AI on journalism, including AIGC infiltration, content ecology, platform shift, distribution revolution, technological substitution, audience change, local news, etc., presenting the trend of change in the journalism industry and the challenges it faces. AIGC infiltration changes the workflow: generative AI such as ChatGPT affects the news industry, and many media and organizations actively apply it to improve the efficiency of gathering and editing and give rise to new platform forms. For example, research by the Associated Press shows that nearly half of the practitioners have changed their workflow because of it, and the New York Times and other organizations have carried out relevant practices...

The Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism today released its annual Digital News Report, which notes that growing global concerns about the use of AI in news production and misinformation are creating new challenges for newsrooms already struggling to engage audiences. The annual report launched a survey of nearly 100,000 people in 47 countries or territories and concluded that consumers are skeptical of news content produced using AI. According to the survey results, 52% of U.S. respondents and 63% of U.K. respondents are uneasy about news generated primarily by AI. The report averaged across each country...