Things are going great in the realm of adding unnecessary AI nonsense into critical news sources! — I mean, it's great if you're a white-adjacent Afrikaner-sympathetic post-apartheid refugee who wants to re-segregate America as a replacement for your once-segregated birthplace.
Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab:
A look at the LA Times' AI “Insights”: much of the cited sourcing wouldn't pass scrutiny in a newsroom or a classroom, and the political labels can be confusing — The hope: The L.A. Times will appear more “objective” if it presents both sides of an issue, even if one side's written …Discussion:Margaret Sullivan / The Guardian: The LA Times' AI ‘bias meter’ looks like a bid to please Donald TrumpNoor Al-Sibai / Futurism: LA Times Uses AI to Provide “Different Views” on the KKKKarl Bode / Techdirt: The LA Times' Political Rating “AI” Is A Silly Joke Aimed At Validating Wealthy Media Ownership's Inherent BiasMax Tani / @maxwelltani: Scott Jennings' op-ed arguing that Trump did a great job handling the LA wildfires is given a “center” point of view label from the LA Times new AI-generated bias meter [image]Bret Carmichael / @bretcarmichael@mastodon.social: If the LA Times wants alternative perspectives, AI is an ineffective way to get any real depth of thinking, especially on emerging issues. It could instead do something like community notes. Alternatively, if it wants to water down its opinion to the extent where every article undermines its own arguments, it could eliminate opinion entirely. …@theredterra.bsky.social: Things are going great in the realm of adding unnecessary AI nonsense into critical news sources! — I mean, it's great if you're a white-adjacent Afrikaner-sympathetic post-apartheid refugee who wants to re-segregate America as a replacement for your once-segregated birthplace.Race Bannon / @racebannon.bsky.social: This is yet another reason I gave up my subscription to the @latimes.com because they're now in the extremist right-wing pocket. — www.niemanlab.org/2025/03/the- ...Carolina A. Miranda / @cmonstah.bsky.social: This is so spectacularly idiotic and a dereliction of duty as an owner of a newspaper that doesn't have a publisher and has been stuck in labor negotiations for over two years. — www.thedailybeast.com/maga-newspap...Mark Wedel / @mrreeezinable.bsky.social: AI shows that “balance” sometimes isn't really a good thing in journalism. [embedded post]Jacob Clifton / @jacobclifton.com: As in the well-known adage “journalism is looking out the window to see if it's raining but then reporting that some people think it's raining & some people don't & they're both right” [embedded post]Joshua Foust PhD / @joshuafoust.com: We really need to have a reckoning with South African billionaires trying to impose apartheid on the country. [embedded post]David Fedman / @dfeds.bsky.social: I will accept this AI bias checker only when it comes with a small widget function that weighs the response against other sources to root out any....ohhh right [embedded post]Michael Hobbes / @michaelhobbes.bsky.social: lmao how brain-dead do you have to be to think every opinion *and its opposite* are equally worth hearing [embedded post]Kate Bevan / @katebevan.com: So this is an interesting idea, and it's good to see people thinking about how to use AI, but it's also a really clear example of how you need humans involved at every step of the way to curatestuff, make sure it's not producing rubbish or picking weak sources etc www.niemanlab.org/2025/03/the- ...David Beard / @dabeard.bsky.social: Billionaire publisher wanted AI-generated counterpoints to his writers. One published AI “insight” was a defense of the KKK. www.niemanlab.org/2025/03/the- ... via @niemanlab.orgMarissa Rothkopf / @marissarothkopf.bsky.social: The lesson plans for my journalism class are just writing themselves. www.niemanlab.org/2025/03/the- ...Thomas Maxwell / Gizmodo: LA Times Will Label Opinion Articles With AI-Powered ‘Bias Meter’Laura Hazard Owen / @laurahazardowen.bsky.social: i spent a ton of time with the new AI “perspectives” feature on @latimes.com opinion content and...you'll be shocked to hear there are problems www.niemanlab.org/2025/03/the-Wes Davis / The Verge: AI now ‘analyzes’ LA Times articles for bias
Corbin Bolies / The Daily Beast:
The Los Angeles Times removes Particle's AI-powered “Insights” feature from a column after the tool tried to defend the Ku Klux Klan, just a day after its debut — An AI-generated summary tried to offer “different views” on the hate group.Discussion:Matthew Sheffield / @mattsheffield@mastodon.social: The Los Angeles Times's Republican owner set up a new chat bot to contradict his opinion journalists to placate Republicans. — So of course it defended the KKK https://www.thedailybeast.com/ ...Timnit Gebru / Timnit Gebru on LinkedIn: “The Los Angeles Times removed its new AI-powered “insights” feature from a column after the tool tried to defend the Ku Klux Klan.” — I mean what did they expect.Adam Sternbergh / @sternbergh.bsky.social: 🎶 MAGA AI KKK — What else do we have to say! — We didn't start the fire 🎶 — www.thedailybeast.com/maga-newspap...Harry McCracken / @harrymccracken@mastodon.social: More developments from the important new breakthrough of billionaire newspaper owners fixing their publications' broken opinion sections. https://www.thedailybeast.com/Lois Beckett / The Guardian: The LA Times published an op-ed warning of AI's dangers. It also published its AI tool's reply
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