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Becca Caddy

‘I hadn’t verified a single thing’: Using ChatGPT for Iran war news changed how I trust information

Hand holding an iPhone showing ChatGPT updates on the Iran war.

A few weeks ago I started deliberately using ChatGPT to follow the latest news about the Iran war. It was partly a test to see how chatbots compare to traditional news sites at presenting real-time information, and partly because the pace of the news at the time was overwhelming.

But at some point I noticed I hadn't clicked through to verify a single thing. I'd just been absorbing whatever ChatGPT told me.

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