AI Slop is Invading Our Personal Lives: And Half of It Is Made Up

Studies

• Researchers have found that artificial intelligence is now lying about some subjects 35% of the time—nearly twice the rate of 18% from a year ago.
  • NewsGuard researchers ( 4, 2025 report https://www.forbes.com/sites/emmawoollacott/2025/09/05/ai-chatbots-are-feeding-you-more-false-information-than-ever/), on average, found, the chatbots spread false claims when prompted with questions about controversial news topics 35% of the time — almost double the 18% rate of a year ago.  The rate for Perplexity was 47% and for Meta and ChatGPT it was 40%. Claude was the most accurate, offering up false reports just 10% of the time.

While the methodology is suspect, the message still remains clear.

• The base was a “false claims prompts” (https://www.newsguardtech.com/solutions/false-claim-fingerprints/) and they used a “rigorous journalistic process” (https://www.newsguardtech.com/ratings/false-claim-fingerprints-process/) that is neither academic nor independent