It looks like the news feed data is external, not part of training, same as the character sheet data (at least according to the diagram). This makes sense from a design perspective as then you don't need to retrain the model each time the news changes.
When an unplanned result is worth qualifying as poor taste instead of humorous is a debate unlikely to be resolved on HN, but it doesn't need to be to explain why the author bothered to include it when documenting their experience.