Fact-checkers checked over 7,600 responses from five popular AI chatbots. What were the strangest mistakes they found?
“Gemini in August refused to answer questions about the first half of 2026 because it believed it was not yet complete.”
What happened
British fact-checkers at Full Fact asked five popular chatbots the same 22 questions every day for 70 days. Among the oddities: in late July and again on August 1, Gemini declined to report migrant numbers for the first half of 2026 because, it said, that half-year had not ended yet.