generative AI

This is a list of my publications on this topic.

How Generative AI Chatbots Responded to Questions and Fact-checks about the 2024 UK General Election

This factsheet examines the performance of three generative AI chatbots—ChatGPT4o, Google Gemini, and Perplexity—in responding to questions and fact-checks related to the 2024 UK General Election. Analysing 300 responses to 100 election-related …

What Does the Public in Six Countries Think of Generative AI in News?

This report presents online survey data on how people use generative artificial intelligence (AI), and what they think about its application in journalism and other areas of work and life across six countries (Argentina, Denmark, France, Japan, the …

'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 …