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We Compared Eight AI Search Engines. They’re All Bad at Citing News. Highlight
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Despite having a partnership with the Texas Tribune, Perplexity cited an unofficial version of the article instead.
Conversely, syndicated versions or unauthorized copies of news articles present a challenge for publishers wishing to opt out of crawling. Their content continued to appear in results without their consent, albeit incorrectly attributed to the sources that republished it. For instance, while USA Today blocks ChatGPT’s crawler, the chatbot still cited a version of its article that was republished by Yahoo News.
— Klaudia Jaźwińska and Aisvarya ChandrasekarReplicated under Fair Use from We Compared Eight AI Search Engines. They’re All Bad at Citing News. by Klaudia Jaźwińska and Aisvarya Chandrasekar.