Wednesday, December 7, 2022

"MSN Fired Its Human Journalists and Replaced Them With AI That Publishes Fake News About Mermaids and Bigfoot"

Should we visit Microsoft News more or less often?

Talk about being torn.

We like journalists and get some of our best ideas from them.

But "MSN: Now With More Bigfoot (and mermaids)" has its own attractions, in a cryptid sort of way.

From Futurism:

MSN fired its journalists and replaced them with AI. Here's what happened next.

Earlier this month, we reported that the Microsoft-operated news site MSN had run a clearly bogus story claiming that Claire "Grimes" Boucher had publicly called out ex-boyfriend Elon Musk on Twitter for not paying child support. The tweet the story based its claims off was an obvious fabrication, but that didn't stop the Inquisitr from publishing it, or MSN from distributing it to a much wider audience.

It turns out that was only the tip of the iceberg in MSN's sloppy propagation of patently fake news....

....MUCH MORE

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