Tag: Source Quality
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Ecosia turns to non-European open-weight models for AI search instead of Mistral
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According to a survey by the German digital industry association Bitkom, German companies have so far made little use of AI from China. The Berlin-based search engine Ecosia is now taking a different approach: it is ending its collaboration with French AI provider Mistral AI and will rely more heavily on open-weight models, including systems…
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How neutral are Google’s AI Overviews on election-related queries?
AlgorithmWatch is a non-profit organisation based in Berlin and Zurich that examines the societal impact of algorithms and artificial intelligence. In July 2026, the NGO investigated the responses generated by Google’s AI Overviews for election-related search queries. Using Google’s “Search Researcher Result API”, AlgorithmWatch analysed 4,480 searches relating to the 2026 state elections in Saxony-Anhalt…
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How fake news finds its way into AI-generated answers
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When large volumes of false or satirical content are spread online in a coordinated way, AI assistants may end up treating that material as relevant information. A recent example comes from DuckDuckGo: according to Futurism, the search engine’s AI assistant falsely claimed that Donald Trump had died of rabies in early June 2026. The false…
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Current AI debate is helping to professionalise the use of AI-generated content
Over the past two weeks, numerous articles have been published as part of the wider “AI debate” surrounding the use of AI-generated texts. The criticism has focused mainly on the lack of disclosure of AI use, allegedly naive handling of AI models and the potential for errors in AI-generated texts. AI is a new tool…
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AI-generated websites are just as factually accurate
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According to a new study, the quality of information on the internet has not declined despite the sharp rise in AI-generated content. A research team from Imperial College, Stanford University and the Internet Archive reached this conclusion after sampling websites from 2022 to 2025 and analysing them using an AI detection tool. Since the launch…
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How does AI citation drift affect search results?
Research into “AI citation drift” examines how stable source references generated by language models actually are. So far, the issue has mainly been discussed in the context of online marketing, where long-term visibility is particularly important for brands and website operators. Sistrix has carried out an extensive analysis of the issue, covering three platforms in…