Why ChatGPT can’t be trusted with breaking news
The first thing I read this morning was that the United States had removed Maduro from Venezuela. The second thing I read was a query from Brian Barrett, Executive Editor at Wired. He had asked ChatGPT and Perplexity about the situation. Both (though not Claude or Google) had fumbled the news, and Barrett wanted to know why. According to Barrett ChatGPT emphatically refuted that Maduro had been captured at all. “That didn’t happen,” it wrote. “The United States has not invaded Venezuela, and Nicolás Maduro has not been captured.” It then rationalized … [explaining that] “confusion” can happen because of








