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ChatGPT is hallucinating fake links to its news partners' biggest investigations
Nieman Lab’s tests show ChatGPT is directing users to broken URLs for at least 10 publications with OpenAI licensing deals.
Using details from a leaked letter written by the Business Insider Union’s steward, I confirmed the chatbot is generating fake URLs for some of the outlet’s biggest investigations and directing some users to 404 errors instead of real article pages. For example, I prompted ChatGPT to search the web for the first news article that exposed the use of popular copyrighted novels in Book3 — a database widely used by Silicon Valley AI developers to train LLMs. Nearly a year later, in our testing, ChatGPT was still unable to correctly link out to an two-year-long investigation on West African migrants that won the AP a Livingston Award for International Reporting earlier this month.
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