Fake news and ridiculing the dead — what’s wrong with Microsoft’s AI news
A new CNN report about the MSN AI model’s news aggregation kicks off with examples of questionable editorial calls, like highlighting a story claiming President Joe Biden dozed off during a moment of silence for Maui wildfire victims (he didn’t), or an obituary that inexplicably referred to an NBA player as “useless.” An editorial staff of humans probably would've spotted the problems.
https://www.cnn.com/2023/11/02/tech/microsoft-ai-news/index.html
It’s not just Microsoft, of course. AI is creeping into journalism
https://www.theverge.com/2023/9/28/23894651/ai-newsroom-journalism-study-automation-bias
just as it is everywhere else.
The BBC is undertaking AI experiments,
https://www.theverge.com/2023/10/6/23906645/bbc-generative-ai-news-openai
sites like Macworld use chatbots to query their archive, and The Associated Press has used AI for its “Automated Insights” for over eight years.
https://www.theverge.com/2015/1/29/7939067/ap-journalism-automation-robots-financial-reporting
There are no careless journalists to blame, no editors with names and faces to take (or even shirk) responsibility. It’s all just software doing what it’s made to do and spokespeople shrugging when it goes wrong and saying they’ll try to make sure it doesn’t happen in the future.
no one cares cause no one is to blame
