AI chatbots are recommending fake retail websites, study finds
AI-generated summary A study by Podqi testing ChatGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity found that chatbots displayed risky URLs in up to 15 percent of conversations. The research revealed that Perplexity showed risky sites in 15 percent of answers, while ChatGPT reached 8 percent and Google's Gemini showed them in 4 percent of answers.