The Los Angeles Times’ billionaire owner, who unveiled an AI tool that generates opposing perspectives to be displayed on Opinion stories, was unaware the new tool had created pro-KKK arguments less than 24 hours after it launched — and hours after the AI comments had been taken down.

Insights, a new Los Angeles Times AI-powered summary and "bias meter" tool, offered a rosy perspective on the Ku Klux Klan in Orange County.

The brand-new Los Angeles Times artificial intelligence feature didn’t exactly get off to the best start. The long-touted feature named “Insights” launched this week for the paper’s opinion articles and is designed to “offer readers an instantly accessible way to see a wide range of different AI-enabled perspectives alongside the positions presented in the article.

The LA Times had to remove its new artificial intelligence feature from a story after it downplayed the KKK's racist history

The Los Angeles Times has introduced a new AI-supported tool for the political evaluation of opinion articles. After a scandal surrounding an AI-generated defense of the Ku Klux Klan, the feature had to be partially withdrawn.

As hard as it is to believe, the L.A. Times’ controversial new AI pivoted to racism within 24 hours of launch.