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

30% of headline requests to ChatGPT produced headlines that could be found on the prompted outlet's website, but were not one of the top stories – either because they were old or not important enough.

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: 225 headline requests in each country (1575 across all 7 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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