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The consequences of relying on AI for accurate news
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A new MIT Media Lab study found that participants who relied on AI to verify news became worse at detecting misinformation on their own when the chatbot was removed. Over four weeks, 67 people evaluated headline-image pairs. AI assistance improved accuracy by 21 percent during sessions, but created a dependency that eroded independent fact-checking ability.
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