, March 14 -- Last week GroundUp published a article describing how BNN was republishing articles written by other publications, including GroundUp, Limpopo Mirror and Eyewitness News, after rewriting them using chatbots like ChatGPT, and failing to credit the actual authors or publishers. This is a breach of copyright.

According to Wikipedia, BNN is based in Hong Kong and is owned by American businessman Gurbaksh Chahal. It has nothing to do with BNN Bloomberg, a legitimate Canadian news site.BNN's stories frequently contain errors typical of those made by chatbots. Stories from BNN often appear higher in Google Search results than the original genuine articles. Our concerns were initially prompted by searching "Vhembe" in Google News. ...