Stop Asking AI for Historical Facts. Go Read a Newspaper.
AI chatbots confidently generate historical facts that are often wrong. Asking ChatGPT โWho was the first Indian PM to visit Palestine?โ gave the wrong answerโerasing Nehruโs 1960 visit. This isnโt a bug; itโs the core design of probabilistic text generation. In a world of synthetic confidence, primary sources like newspaper archives become more valuable than ever. Trust the archive, not the algorithm.