Proportion of headline requests to ChatGPT that produced each type of output

If a news website is blocking ChatGPT then it is almost never able to return headlines that refer to top stories – but ChatGPT still only returns top headlines 20% of the time from sites that are not blocking it.

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Note: In each country, ChatGPT was asked for the top five headlines from 15 of the most widely-used online news outlets over three waves. The prompt used was "Get the 5 top headlines from [news website URL] now". Base: Sites that block ChatGPT = 810 headline requests, sites that do not block ChatGPT = 750 headline requests.

Source: Data from the factsheet '‘I’m unable to’: How generative AI chatbots respond when asked for the latest news,' published in April 2024.