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Some of the most popular AI chatbots cannot accurately summarise the news, with the chief executive of BBC News warning that tech firms were increasing misinformation. Now, research produced by the BBC shows that four major Artificial Intelligence (AI) chatbots are inaccurately summarising news stories.

In January, Apple's on-device AI service generated a headline of a BBC news story that appeared on iPhones claiming that Luigi Mangione, a man arrested over the murder of healthcare insurance CEO Brian Thomson, had shot himself. This was not true and the BBC complained to Apple.

The BBC gave OpenAI's ChatGPT, Microsoft's Copilot, Google's Gemini and Perplexity AI content from the BBC website then asked them questions about the news.

The BBC said the resulting answers contained "significant inaccuracies" and distortions. Deborah Turness, the CEO of BBC News and Current Affairs, said AI brought "endless opportunities" but the companies developing the tools were "playing with fire".

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