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NewsGuard / Macrina Wang, Charlene Lin, and McKenzie Sadeghi / Jan 30, 2025
“NewsGuard found that with news-related prompts, DeepSeek repeated false claims 30 percent of the time and provided non-answers 53 percent of the time…NewsGuard’s December 2024 audit on the 10 leading chatbots (OpenAI’s ChatGPT-4o, You.com’s Smart Assistant, xAI’s Grok-2, Inflection’s Pi, Mistral’s le Chat, Microsoft’s Copilot, Meta AI, Anthropic’s Claude, Google’s Gemini 2.0, and Perplexity’s answer engine) found that they had an average fail rate of 62 percent. DeepSeek’s fail rate places the chatbot as tied for 10th of the 11 models tested.”
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