AI chatbots may be better than search engines in guarding against foreign propaganda

NPR and NewsGuard developed queries for AI chatbots and search engines using false narratives spread by China, Iran and Russia and compared their performances.

In a test, popular AI chatbots mostly debunked falsehoods spread by other countries and avoided uncritically spreading falsehoods better than search engines. AI summaries above search results fared worse.

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