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Scraped and stripped: The EBU’s global fight for 'Facts In, Facts Out'
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Scraped and stripped: The EBU’s global fight for 'Facts In, Facts Out'

From the Bondi Beach misinformation scandal to the BBC’s AI labs, we examine the systemic distortion of news by generative AI.

In Episode 2, Season 2 of the Eurovision News Podcast, host Giles Gibson examines the relationship between AI companies and the news industry.

He visits the BBC's headquarters in London to dig into cutting-edge research on the growing use of AI assistants such as ChatGPT and Perplexity for news related questions. Experts warn these assistants are "still not a reliable way to access and consume news."

We find out how AI companies "scrape" news content from publishers online and learn about the "Facts In : Facts Out" campaign backed by the European Broadcasting Union and WAN-IFRA.

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