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“It took #NewsBreak—which attracts over 50 million monthly users—four days to remove the fake shooting story, and it apparently wasn't an isolated incident. According to Reuters, NewsBreak's AI tool, which scrapes the web and helps rewrite local news stories, has been used to publish at least 40 misleading or erroneous stories since 2021.”

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Ars Technica · Top news app caught sharing “entirely false” AI-generated newsMost-downloaded local news app adds disclaimer that it's not always "error-free."

In at least 40 instances since 2021, NewsBreak's use of AI tools affected the communities the news app strives to serve, publishing erroneous stories, creating 10 stories from local news sites under fictitious bylines and lifting content from its competitors. japantimes.co.jp/news/2024/06/ #worldnews #newsbreak #apps #misinformation #us #ai #china

The Japan Times · Top news app in U.S. has Chinese origins and ‘writes fiction’ with AIBy James Pearson