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ResearchBuzz: Firehose<p>Engadget: Wikipedia cancels plan to test AI summaries after editors skewer the idea. “Wikipedia is backing off a plan to test AI article summaries. Earlier this month, the platform announced plans to trial the feature for about 10 percent of mobile web visitors. To say they weren’t well-received by editors would be an understatement. The Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) then changed plans and […]</p><p><a href="https://rbfirehose.com/2025/06/15/engadget-wikipedia-cancels-plan-to-test-ai-summaries-after-editors-skewer-the-idea/" class="" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://rbfirehose.com/2025/06/15/engadget-wikipedia-cancels-plan-to-test-ai-summaries-after-editors-skewer-the-idea/</a></p>
ResearchBuzz: Firehose<p>MakeUseOf: I Instantly Know if a YouTube Video Deserves My Time, Thanks to This Tool. “Let’s cut to the chase: TLDR (Too Long; Didn’t Read) is a Chrome extension that turns any web page or YouTube video into a pithy, bullet-style digest. Click the blue-and-white lightning icon, and a concise summary pops up in a sidebar. It doesn’t dump the full transcript on you, nor does it spoon-feed […]</p><p><a href="https://rbfirehose.com/2025/05/10/makeuseof-i-instantly-know-if-a-youtube-video-deserves-my-time-thanks-to-this-tool/" class="" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://rbfirehose.com/2025/05/10/makeuseof-i-instantly-know-if-a-youtube-video-deserves-my-time-thanks-to-this-tool/</a></p>
ResearchBuzz: Firehose<p>BBC: Grandmother gets X-rated message after Apple AI fail. “Louise Littlejohn, 66, received a voicemail message on Wednesday from a Lookers Land Rover garage in Motherwell inviting her to an event. An artificial intelligence (AI) powered service offered by Apple turned it into a text message which – to her surprise – asked if she been ‘able to have sex’ before calling her a ‘piece of ****’.”</p><p><a href="https://rbfirehose.com/2025/03/09/bbc-grandmother-gets-x-rated-message-after-apple-ai-fail/" class="" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://rbfirehose.com/2025/03/09/bbc-grandmother-gets-x-rated-message-after-apple-ai-fail/</a></p>
ResearchBuzz: Firehose<p>Columbia Journalism Review: We Compared Eight AI Search Engines. They’re All Bad at Citing News.. “Overall, the chatbots often failed to retrieve the correct articles. Collectively, they provided incorrect answers to more than 60 percent of queries. Across different platforms, the level of inaccuracy varied, with Perplexity answering 37 percent of the queries incorrectly, while Grok 3 had a […]</p><p><a href="https://rbfirehose.com/2025/03/06/columbia-journalism-review-we-compared-eight-ai-search-engines-theyre-all-bad-at-citing-news/" class="" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://rbfirehose.com/2025/03/06/columbia-journalism-review-we-compared-eight-ai-search-engines-theyre-all-bad-at-citing-news/</a></p>
ResearchBuzz: Firehose<p>BBC: AI chatbots unable to accurately summarise news, BBC finds. “Four major artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots are inaccurately summarising news stories, according to research carried out by the BBC. The BBC gave OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Microsoft’s Copilot, Google’s Gemini and Perplexity AI content from the BBC website then asked them questions about the news.”</p><p><a href="https://rbfirehose.com/2025/02/12/bbc-ai-chatbots-unable-to-accurately-summarise-news-bbc-finds/" class="" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://rbfirehose.com/2025/02/12/bbc-ai-chatbots-unable-to-accurately-summarise-news-bbc-finds/</a></p>
ResearchBuzz: Firehose<p>CNN: Apple is pulling its AI-generated notifications for news after generating fake headlines . “Apple is temporarily pulling its newly introduced artificial intelligence feature that summarizes news notifications after it repeatedly sent users error-filled headlines, sparking backlash from a news organization and press freedom groups.”</p><p><a href="https://rbfirehose.com/2025/01/17/cnn-apple-is-pulling-its-ai-generated-notifications-for-news-after-generating-fake-headlines/" class="" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://rbfirehose.com/2025/01/17/cnn-apple-is-pulling-its-ai-generated-notifications-for-news-after-generating-fake-headlines/</a></p>