KKK, AI and LA Times

It only took a day for LA Times' new AI tool to sympathize with the KKK
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.
MAGA Newspaper Owner’s AI Bot Defends KKK
The Los Angeles Times removed its new AI-powered “insights” feature from a column after the tool tried to defend the Ku Klux Klan. Columnist Gustavo Arellano’s Feb. 25 column reflected on Anaheim’s history with the hate group after the city’s council did not acknowledge the 100th anniversary of booting four Klan-affiliated council members from the group.
The LA Times’ new AI tool sympathized with the KKK. Its owner wasn’t aware until hours later
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.
It didn't take long for the L.A. Times' new AI to defend the KKK
As hard as it is to believe, the L.A. Times’ controversial new AI pivoted to racism within 24 hours of launch.
LA Times Pulls AI Tool One Day After Launch for Downplaying KKK
The Los Angeles Times removed its new artificial intelligence feature from one of its articles on Tuesday — only 24 hours following its debut — after it shared a perspective downplaying the Ku Klux Klan's racist history.
LA Times AI defends the Ku Klux Klan
After suggesting the KKK may not be a hate-based movement, the LA Times has removed the feature from their article on the Klan. Having done exactly what it was asked to do, offer different perspectives,
Georgia's Stone Mountain Confederate monument faces renewed scrutiny
"This is not a humble monument to the Georgians who fought in the Civil War," one Georgia native said of the carvings on ...
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Ku Klux Klan flyers are last cries of a dying organization in Kentucky
The Klan faction known as the Trinity White Knights (TWK) has recently distributed racist flyers several times in and around ...
'Quite a few of us out tonight': 'Pop-up Klans' use KKK flyers for attention
The man police cited for dropping KKK flyers in Lincoln Heights said he distributed them to 16 towns along I-75 that night.
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Federal judge declines to award attorney fees in 'very weak' voter intimidation case
A federal judge agreed last week that three civic organizations presented a "very weak" voter intimidation case to her last ...
KKK flyers distributed in local neighborhood
VANDALIA — Residents of a Vandalia neighborhood woke up Sunday to find flyers from the KKK distributed along the street. On ...
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Pentagon Watchdog Halts Review of Military Efforts to Root Out Extremism
The Pentagon inspector general has scrapped plans to investigate the military's training for identifying and countering extremism in the ranks -- saying the project does not align with President ...
'Zoom bomb' of racist Klan rally disrupts Washoe Animal Advisory Board meeting
Board member Diaz Dixon was speaking when the Zoom connection was taken over by someone in Klan gear blasting a KKK rally ...
100 years ago, Anaheim recalled its KKK city council. Why don’t we remember?
It was the most consequential election in the city’s history, yet there has been no commemoration of the anniversary. Not a ...
Lawmakers honor 15 enslaved men who built Tennessee Capitol, seek permanent memorial
Tennessee lawmakers for the first time honored the work of 15 enslaved men rented by the State of Tennessee in the 1800s to build the State Capitol.
Jury awards $2.5 million to teen beaten by Klan members
A jury awarded $2.5 million in damages on Friday to a Kentucky teenager who was severely beaten by members of a Ku Klux Klan group because the Klansmen mistakenly thought he was an illegal Latino ...