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Artificial intelligence poses a serious threat to the business model of journalism

Microsoft's move towards AI for MSN news curation has had a serious impact on the quality of information featured on its homepage, say reports.

An AI-generated poll recently asked readers to speculate about the murder of a Sydney woman, while a major news outlet uses AI to produce thousands of articles. Rob Nicholls explores the medium's rise and risk.

As AI begins to eat its way into our lives more each day, its limitations become more obvious as it encounters situations its creators might not have envisioned.

The Guardian has accused Microsoft of reputational damage, after it displayed one of its articles alongside an inappropriate AI-generated poll.

Guardrails Microsoft, for some reason, ran a disgusting AI-generated poll next to an aggregated article about a woman who'd been found dead in Australia — and The Guardian, which published the original article in question, wants answers. As The Guardian reports in its own recounting of the incident, the article that Microsoft re-published on MSN.com focused […]

False claims that President Joe Biden fell asleep during a moment of silence for victims of the Maui wildfire. A conspiracy theory that the latest surge in Covid-19 cases is being orchestrated by the Democratic Party ahead of the election. An obituary for a late NBA player that described him as “useless.”

(CNN) — False claims that President Joe Biden fell asleep during a moment of silence for victims of the Maui wildfire. A conspiracy theory that the latest surge in Covid-19

The company's choice to use automation over human editors appears to be behind the site’s recent amplification of false and bizarre stories.

The poll ran within Microsofts curated news aggregator platform Microsoft Start, and asked readers what they thought of the womans death.