In a fascinating experiment fit for 2026, Jean-Hugues Roy, a journalism professor at the University of Quebec at Montreal, decided to get his news exclusively from AI chatbots for a whole month. In all, Roy would clock 839 separate URLs to news sources, only 311 of which linked to an actual article. Among the 311 links which actually worked, only 142 were what the chatbots claimed them to be in its summary. And that’s without getting into the chatbots’ actual handling of details in the news. More on AI chatbots: USA TODAY’s Disclaimers on Its Automated Sports Stories Are Longer Than the Actual Articles