"The results are predictably disastrous. Within hours of the feature's launch, the LA Times had to remove AI-generated content that attempted to defend the Ku Klux Klan. As The Daily Beast reported, columnist Gustavo Arellano wrote a piece reflecting on Anaheim's history with the hate group, but the AI 'insights' below the piece included a point that 'Local historical accounts occasionally frame the 1920s Klan as a product of "white Protestant culture" responding to societal changes rather than an explicitly hate-driven movement, minimizing its ideological threat.'
And sure, local historical accounts do occasionally frame the Klan that way, so it’s not technically wrong. But I hope we can all agree that if there’s one group that doesn’t need a devil’s advocate, it’s the KKK."
https://www.readtpa.com/p/spicy-autocomplete-the-la-times-outsources
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