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"Undeterred, this year, Politico’s management launched another AI product, an AI-generated “report builder” for premium Politico PRO subscribers. The product is supposed to draw from Politico’s archives of reported material to automatically generate bespoke reports. This brand of report writing is the sort of task previously carried out by human writers with domain area or institutional expertise. It’s also, as staffers who tested the tool have found, error-prone, and generates reports naming organizations that don’t exist and that include myriad factual inaccuracies.

“It’s wholly behind the paywall, but when we have asked it things, it’s giving us back some pretty glaring errors,” Wittenberg says. “I asked it about ‘The Impact of President Biden’s Oil Policies,’ and it wrote me a whole page-and-a half thing, and every single policy it mentioned was a policy of Trump’s. And it cited real stories at the very bottom, from our members, the implication being that if someone is reading this, and it’s erroneous, not only does our AI not know the difference between Biden’s policies and Trump’s, but maybe the authors of the cited articles didn’t, either.”

Wittenberg and her colleagues’ surprise and confusion over the sudden implementation of AI was twofold; it was not just that Politico’s management had so suddenly deployed the product at all, but that its appearance was in direct conflict with the editorial union’s contract.

In early 2024, after nearly two years of negotiations, the PEN Guild ratified its first collective bargaining agreement. And that contract contained some very straightforward guidelines about the use of AI: Notably, that if Politico’s management wants to introduce new AI products that “materially and substantively” impact journalists’ job duties, it needs to give 60 days notice. For the AI summarizer, Politico’s bosses gave its editorial staff 60 minutes instead."

bloodinthemachine.com/p/inside
#AI #GenerativeAI #Journalism #News #Media #FactChecking

Blood in the Machine · The struggle over AI in journalism is escalatingBy Brian Merchant
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@tonline die Frage an die @Ard ist eher warum bekommen #faschisten auf Basis meiner #rundfunkbeitrage eine Bühne geboten obwohl das die ARD-„Richtlinien zur politischen Berichterstattung“ betonen, dass Extremisten keine unkritische Bühne erhalten dürfen.

Zudem sagt das Bundesverfassungsgericht das: „Der Rundfunkauftrag besteht nicht nur in der Vermittlung von Informationen, sondern auch in der Verteidigung der freiheitlichen Demokratie.“
(BVerfGE 12, 205 – Fernsehen I)

Die Menschen demonstrieren weil seit dem 2. Mai 2025 der Verfassungsschutz die gesamte #AFD als eine Partei mit „gesichert rechtsextremistischer Bestrebung“ einstuft.

Somit bietet doch die @Ard Rechtsextremen/Faschisten eine Bühne oder verstehe ich da etwas falsch.

Vielleicht kann ja die @tagesschau mal #factchecking betreiben.