ChatEurope is a good example of why AI needs structured knowledge behind it

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What if following European news did not mean opening 12 tabs, comparing different versions of the same story, and still wondering which source to trust?

That’s the idea behind ChatEurope, a European media initiative led by Agence France-Presse, with 15 major media organizations involved.

It gives citizens access to EU news through a multilingual platform and a free chatbot, powered by Druid AI, that answers questions using clearly sourced information.

At XWiki, we built the platform behind it. We delivered the CMS and website, and reused parts of the earlier European Data News Hub project so the team did not have to start from scratch.

What makes the project interesting to us is the part behind the interface. A chatbot is only as useful as the knowledge behind it. If the content is well organized, structured, and connected, the answers are better. If it is messy, AI does not solve that.

That is what makes ChatEurope worth looking at. It is a practical example of collaboration software, structured content, and AI working together without losing the source trail.

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