←back to thread

AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time

(www.bbc.co.uk)
423 points sohkamyung | 1 comments | 22 Oct 25 13:39 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
Show context
MangoToupe ◴[22 Oct 25 14:14 UTC] No.45669488[source]▶
Now let's run this experiment against the editorial boards in newsrooms.

Obviously, AI isn't an improvement, but people who blindly trust the news have always been credulous rubes. It's just that the alternative is being completely ignorant of the worldviews of everyone around you.

Peer-reviewed science is as close as we can get to good consensus and there's a lot of reasons this doesn't work for reporting.

replies(4): >>45669508 #>>45669515 #>>45669649 #>>45669813 #
n4r9 ◴[22 Oct 25 14:16 UTC] No.45669508[source]▶
I guess the claim is not that rubes did not used to exist, but rather that technology is increasingly encouraging and streamlining rubism.
replies(2): >>45669613 #>>45669667 #
1. walkabout ◴[22 Oct 25 14:27 UTC] No.45669667[source]▶
I decided about a decade ago that McLuhan was a prophet, and that the “message” of the Internet may not include compatibility with democracy, as it turns out.