A recent study by the Tow Center for Digital Journalism, reported by Columbia Journalism Review , indicates that chatbots struggle to retrieve and cite news content accurately. Even more concerning is their tendency to invent information when they do not have the correct answer. AI chatbots tested for the survey included many of the “best,” including ChatGPT , Perplexity, Perplexity Pro, DeepSeek , Microsoft’s Copilot, Grok 2, Grok 3, and Google Gemini. In the tests, AI cha
