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A large international study coordinated by the and led by the found that AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time across different languages and platforms, with performing the worst.

[…] Key findings: 

• 45% of all AI answers had at least one significant issue.
• 31% of responses showed serious sourcing problems – missing, misleading, or incorrect attributions.
• 20% contained major accuracy issues, including hallucinated details and outdated information.
• Gemini performed worst with significant issues in 76% of responses, more than double the other assistants, largely due to its poor sourcing performance.
• Comparison between the BBC’s results earlier this year and this study show some improvements but still high levels of errors.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/2025/new-ebu-research-ai-assistants-news-content

"AI systems may now have a carbon footprint equivalent to that of New York City in 2025, while their water footprint could be in the range of the global annual consumption of bottled water."

This is so depressing. Soon we'll have no resources left thanks to AI.

https://digiconomist.net/the-hidden-carbon-and-water-costs-of-ai/

"A grassroots boycott called QuitGPT has been spreading across the US and beyond, asking people to cancel their ChatGPT subscriptions. More than a million people have answered the call."

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/mar/04/quit-chatgpt-subscription-boycott-silicon-valley

"We're organizing Americans and people around the world to quit ChatGPT."

https://quitgpt.org/

"History shows us that the right to literacy came at a heavy cost for many Americans, ranging from ostracism to death. Those in power recognized that oppression is best maintained by keeping the masses illiterate, and those oppressed recognized that literacy is liberation. To my students and to anyone who might listen, I say: Don’t surrender to AI your ability to read, write and think when others once risked their lives and died for the freedom to do so."

Will Teague on ( / ) and education.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/history-professor-ai-cheating-students_n_69178150e4b0781acfd62540