Underneath virtually every second post on X these days comes the inevitable crowd-sourced, AI-based fact check; “@Grok is this true?”

Just 30 percent of Americans say they “trust the news,” down from 32 percent last year and well down on the 55 percent that said they had a “great deal of confidence” in the news back in 1997.

So if the social masses are turning to AI to help fact-check, will it restore trust in the news?

Sam Altman has his doubts.

"People have a very high degree of trust in ChatGPT, which is interesting because, like, AI hallucinates," Altman said during a podcast with technologist Andrew Mayne. "It should be the tech that you don't trust that much."

He’s right.

Recent studies by the BBC found that 51 percent of AI responses to news-related questions contained significant issues, the tip of a much deeper iceberg affecting how AI companies gather and process information. AI systems routinely present false financial........

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