The Guardian: LA Times reportedly removes new AI tool from story after it downplayed KKK. “The Los Angeles Times has reportedly removed its new artificial intelligence (AI) tool from one of its articles, just a day after launching the feature. The publication unveiled a new AI-driven feature called ‘Insights’ this week, designed to accompany articles that express a particular viewpoint or are […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/03/07/the-guardian-la-times-reportedly-removes-new-ai-tool-from-story-after-it-downplayed-kkk/

Columbia Journalism Review: We Compared Eight AI Search Engines. They’re All Bad at Citing News.. “Overall, the chatbots often failed to retrieve the correct articles. Collectively, they provided incorrect answers to more than 60 percent of queries. Across different platforms, the level of inaccuracy varied, with Perplexity answering 37 percent of the queries incorrectly, while Grok 3 had a […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/03/06/columbia-journalism-review-we-compared-eight-ai-search-engines-theyre-all-bad-at-citing-news/

BBC: AI chatbots unable to accurately summarise news, BBC finds. “Four major artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots are inaccurately summarising news stories, according to research carried out by the BBC. The BBC gave OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Microsoft’s Copilot, Google’s Gemini and Perplexity AI content from the BBC website then asked them questions about the news.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/02/12/bbc-ai-chatbots-unable-to-accurately-summarise-news-bbc-finds/

CNN: Apple is pulling its AI-generated notifications for news after generating fake headlines . “Apple is temporarily pulling its newly introduced artificial intelligence feature that summarizes news notifications after it repeatedly sent users error-filled headlines, sparking backlash from a news organization and press freedom groups.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/01/17/cnn-apple-is-pulling-its-ai-generated-notifications-for-news-after-generating-fake-headlines/

Raymond Camden: Summarizing with Transformers.js. “Earlier this month I took my first look at using Transformers.js, a JavaScript SDK around multiple different models hosted by Hugging Face. My initial experiments worked pretty OK I think. The sentiment analysis felt pretty good, and the object detection (with a cat demo of course), worked pretty good as well. I was curious how well […]

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