The link to the BBC research document is https://www.bbc.co.uk/aboutthebbc/documents/bbc-research-into-ai-assistants.pdf https://www.bbc.co.uk/aboutthebbc/docum

The link to the BBC research document is https://www.bbc.co.uk/aboutthebbc/documents/bbc-research-into-ai-assistants.pdf https://www.bbc.co.uk/aboutthebbc/documents/bbc-research-int... "In December 2024, the BBC carried out research into the accuracy of four prominent AI assistants that can search the internet – OpenAI’s ChatGPT; Microsoft’s Copilot; Google’s Gemini; and Perplexity. We did this by reviewing responses from the AI assistants to 100 questions about the news, asking AI assistants to use BBC News sources where possible. Ordinarily the BBC ‘blocks’ these AI assistants from accessing the BBC’s websites. These blocks were lifted for the duration of the research and have since been reinstated. AI answers were reviewed by BBC journalists, all experts in the question topics. Journalists rated each AI answer against seven criteria – (i) accuracy; (ii) attribution of sources; (iii) impartiality; (iv) distinguishing opinions from facts; (v) editorialisation (inserting comments and descriptions not backed by the facts presented in the source); (vi) context; (vii) the representation of BBC content in the response. For each of these criteria, journalists could rate each response as having no issues; some issues; significant issues or don’t know."