The organization fed content from its website to the services and then asked them questions about the news.
More than half of the answers contained significant inaccuracies and distortions, the BBC said.
Journalists and news organizations told the tech giant about a number of gaffes.
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(He was arrested and is in jail awaiting trial.)
Another falsely told some BBC Sport app users that tennis star Rafael Nadal had come out as gay.
The companies developing Gen AI tools are playing with fire, she declared.
Inthe study, the BBC asked journalists and category experts to evaluate the answers from the chatbots.
Max Goldbart contributed to this report.