As China’s DeepSeek grabs headlines around the world for its disruptively low-cost AI, it is only natural that its models are coming under intense scrutiny—and some researchers are not liking what they see.
On Wednesday, the information-reliability organization NewsGuard said it had audited DeepSeek’s chatbot and found that it provided inaccurate answers or nonanswers 83% of the time when asked about news-related subjects. When presented with demonstrably false claims, it debunked them just 17% of the time, NewsGuard found.
