Summary: AI-generated summaries can manipulate eyewitness memory, causing people to misremember events they witnessed firsthand. In a controlled experiment, exposure to misleading automated summaries nearly halved participants’ recall accuracy, implanting false memories even when viewers were explicitly informed the summaries came from AI. Key Facts: Severe Omission Rates: Across consumer multimodal AI models (including ChatGPT
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