Source: Popular Information
by Judd Legum
“According to a recent study of American AI users, 25% report using an AI chatbot to get news, though most do so only sporadically. But these services have grown so massive that even a modest percentage of users makes AI chatbots a significant, and growing, source of news. Further, AI companies are pushing the public to use AI tools as the starting point for all their information needs. … One of the systemic problems with AI chatbots is that they are overly confident. Increasingly, AI chatbots are unwilling to acknowledge that they do not know the answer to a question. Instead, they make stuff up.” (10/23/25)