Kevin Veale

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Kevin Veale is a senior lecturer in media studies at the School of Humanities, Media and Creative Communication, Te Kunenga ki Pūrehuroa – Massey University.

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Using your AI chatbot as a search engine? Be careful what you believe

The likes of ChatGPT and Claude are looking to generate reasonable-looking sentences, rather than accurate ones.

By Kevin Veale | 24th March, 2026