Published Aug. 28, 2024

The August 2024 edition of the monthly report found that the 10 leading chatbots collectively repeated misinformation 18% of the time, offered a non-response 31% of the time, and a debunk 51% of the time. The 49% rate of failing to provide accurate answers is an improvement over last month’s 59% fail score, although it demonstrates that the industry continues to face major challenges in how it provides information related to news.

NewsGuard launched a monthly AI News Misinformation Monitor in July 2024, setting a new standard for measuring the accuracy and trustworthiness of the AI industry by tracking how each leading generative AI model is responding to prompts related to significant falsehoods in the news.

The monitor focuses on the 10 leading large-language model chatbots: OpenAI’s ChatGPT-4, You.com’s Smart Assistant, xAI’s Grok, Inflection’s Pi, Mistral’s le Chat, Microsoft’s Copilot, Meta AI, Anthropic’s Claude, Google’s Gemini, and Perplexity’s answer engine. It will expand as needed as other generative AI tools are launched.

Researchers, platforms, advertisers, government agencies, and other institutions interested in accessing the detailed individual monthly reports or who want details about our services for generative AI companies can contact NewsGuard here. And to learn more about NewsGuard’s transparently-sourced datasets for AI platforms, click here.