Leading AI assistants misrepresent news content in nearly half their responses, according to new research published on Wednesday by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and the BBC.

The international research studied 3,000 responses to questions about the news from leading artificial intelligence assistants — software applications that use AI to understand natural language commands to complete tasks for a user.

It assessed AI assistants in 14 languages for accuracy, sourcing and ability to distinguish opinion versus fact, including OpenAI's ChatGPT, Microsoft's Copilot, Google's Gemini and Perplexity.

Overall, 45 per cent of the AI responses studied contained at least one significant issue, with 81 per cent having some form of problem, the research showed.

Some seven per cent of all

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