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AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time

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423 points sohkamyung | 1 comments | 22 Oct 25 13:39 UTC | HN request time: 0.281s | source
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Workaccount2 ◴[22 Oct 25 15:03 UTC] No.45670221[source]▶
The media today is so polarized, so dishonest, and so bent on feeding the egos of it's users, the bar to pass them is literally underground.

You can go through most big name media stories and find it ridden with omissions of uncomfortable facts, careful structuring of words to give the illusion of untrue facts being true, and careful curation of what stories are reported.

More than anything, I hope AI topples the garbage bin fire that is modern "journalism". Also, it should be very clear why the media is especially hostile towards AI. It might reveal them as the clowns they are, and kill the social division and controversy that is their lifeblood.

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1. underlipton ◴[22 Oct 25 15:11 UTC] No.45670372[source]▶
All of this is true, and LLMs' nature as stochastic parrots mean that they'll do pretty much nothing to stem the tide. Journalism needs to be somewhere between the USPS, USAID, and local school boards: a network of local and independent offices, funded mostly by guaranteed government grants, reporting judiciously and independently of how the content squares with any particular group's interests. And if anyone wants to curate that feed, fine, but the feed would be there for all to peruse.