OMG! Is it WW3?, AI telling us what we want to hear

It was hard for media all around the world to work out what happened in the Middle East. But claims that WW3 and global recession might be upon us here were rolled back within a day. Also: Chat GPT's been accused of lying, making stuff up and gaslighting a UK journalist while Google's AI seems to be telling us what we want to hear. Is AI human after all?