I ran the same research prompt through 6 AI systems in 5 languages. The results were not the same
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An experiment running the same research prompt about LENR and superconductivity through six AI systems in five languages reveals significant linguistic bias, with non-English queries surfacing information about real industrial commitments that English-only searches miss.
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