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Study: AI chatbots usually cite incorrect sources


Of the eight chatbots tested, Perplexity performed best and Grok 3 the worst.

After each chatbot got the quotes, it was asked to identify the corresponding article’s title, original publisher, and publication date. The researchers deliberately chose quotes that would give the correct original source if typed into the Google search engine. The researchers also found evidence that the AI chatbots’ web spiders often ignored publishers’ paywalls they were supposed to respect.

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