generative AI

This is a list of my publications on this topic.

'I'm Unable To': How Generative AI Chatbots Respond when Asked for the Latest News

We test how well ChatGPT and Bard (now Gemini) provide the latest news to users who ask for the top five headlines from specific outlets. Based on analysis of 4,500 headline requests (in 900 outputs) in January/February 2024, we find that (i) ChatGPT …

How Many News Websites Block AI Crawlers?

In this factsheet we describe the proportion of news websites in ten countries that block AI (artificial intelligence) crawlers. We find that, (i) by the end 2023, 48% of the most widely used news websites across ten countries were blocking OpenAI’s …