Proportion of headline requests to Bard that produced non-news responses (‘I'm unable to’)

Almost all of the time, Bard responded to prompts asking for the latest news with non-news responses – almost always a message saying ‘I'm unable to’.

Note: In each country, Bard 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: 225 headline requests in each country (2,250 across all 10 countries).
Source: Data from the factsheet '‘I’m unable to’: How generative AI chatbots respond when asked for the latest news,' published in April 2024.

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