La Times will mark the articles of the opinion with AI-sub-“bias” meter

Thehe Los Angeles Times He has seen better days as the owner of the company’s billionaire continues to take a destructive ball at the nearly 150-year-old institution. Waves of abbreviations and editorial interference from Patrick Soon-ShonongA supporter of the vocal Trump, tanks morality and now the owner has looked at AI as a panacea, which will improve trust and ultimately – the wealth of the newspaper. Soon, Cyonge announced this week that the opinion articles will already include a meter of AI -powered bias, which denotes articles based on the algorithm’s interpretation of her political slopes.

The new labels include “left, central left, center, central to the right or right” and are determined by a startup called Particle.News, which was founded by former Twitter engineers. There will also be a section called “ViewSpoints”, powered by AI Startup Linplexity, which will show alternative views of those exposed in an article.

These new AI products will be applied not only to the opinion pieces, but also to “articles that offer a point of view on a particular issue”, according to a statement obtained from GuardianS Post-oriented articles will be more clearly outlined by direct news reports with a new Voices Label. Standard news articles will not include AI features.

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Media trust is known low and it’s worth experimenting to see how the tide can turn. But everything is a little ironic that soon Cherong claims to have tried to improve confidence in the media as he repeatedly intervenes in reporting. The billionaire caught Flak in 2024 after sharing the X piece of opinion, which the original author claims to have been changed after introducing that it seemed more positive for Robert F. Kennedy Jr. I got into a dispute over a dog attack. This does not inspire much “trust” when the owner of the billionaire is second -made by journalists’ decisions on Newsworthiness and engages in person when reporters investigate his friends.

Although the Times Editorial Union is not necessarily against showing alternative opinions against an article, they say that AI is not the way to do this. The AI ​​-generated perspectives will not be considered by editors and of course, AI models continue to compile information and receive basic requests wrong (during the last Oscars, Chatgpt appeared nominated from the wrong year). Already, Guardian It reports that some of the contrasting views offered by the AI ​​tool are presented in the article itself. “The money for this endeavor could be directed elsewhere: supporting our journalists on the spot who has not increased the cost of living since 2021,” said Matt Hamilton, Vice President of the Latimis Guild.

It seems inevitable that we are heading to a place where the internet is full AI-Created, pseudo-academic writing, filled with facts and quotes, which will then be cemented into “knowledge”, as these articles become training fodder for future models. How many of this will turn out to be in alternative perspectives Times Articles?

It must be noted, the bewilderment is disregarded by the journalistic industry as a whole, scraping articles and regenerating them almost all the fabric in its chatbot, claiming honest use over practice. When New York Times Employees strike last year during labor negotiations, the Executive Director of Aravind Srinivas offered to Provide AI tools that he suggested that he could replace them. Showing such neglect to their own employees, it would not be surprising to see that Shionong soon expands the use of AI to write whole articles.

Other news organizations have experimented with AI in small and subtle ways. The Washington Post now automatically summarizes articles and surfaces of key points at the top. This newspaper is experiencing its own turmoil as the owner of billionaire Jeff Bezos is directed from the property of the hands to exercising more control and turning his section of opinion entirely prequapitism and “free markets”. Thehe Post have lost hundreds of thousands of subscribers since Bezos blocked the newspaper from the approval of Kamala Harris and has again BLED subscribers after changes to the Post tab.

Just a few years ago, Bezos’ likes seemed to be benevolent billionaires, who would indulge and save inherited media from the destruction made by the Internet. We were naive to believe that. This would always be the problem with news organizations owned by billionaires with controversial interests. Today, the name of the game is pleasantly President Trump, so he does not continue to attack Amazon and maybe throw Blue Origin some new contracts.