A wrong AI summary cut what people remembered almost in half.
Georgetown and Washington researchers showed 331 people a video of a car hitting a pedestrian. A day later a misleading AI summary dropped correct recall of the road sign to 44.8%. People who got an accurate summary answered correctly 83.6% of the time.
Why it mattersYou increasingly read machine summaries of things you watched with your own eyes. This study says a wrong one does not just misinform you, it rewrites the memory.
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