KKK, Los Angeles Times and AI

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
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.
LA Times Pulls AI Tool One Day After Launch for Downplaying KKK
The LA Times had to remove its new artificial intelligence feature from a story after it downplayed the KKK's racist history
LA Times AI tool lasts just one day before generating sympathetic view of the KKK
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 After a scandal surrounding an AI-generated defense of the Ku Klux Klan, the feature had to be partially withdrawn.
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.
L.A. Times pulls new AI tool off article after it defends the KKK
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.
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LA Times Uses AI to Provide "Different Views" on the KKK
In one of the bullet points, the AI noted that some people in the region think there's no "formal proof" that the KKK was all that bad. In another, it pointed out that the Klan was considered part ...
'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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The L.A. Times adds AI-generated counterpoints to its opinion pieces and guess what, there are problems
The L.A. Times will appear more "objective" if it presents both sides of an issue, even if one side's written by a human and ...
LA Times Deploys AI to Contextualize Opinion Pieces
The Los Angeles Times has been at the eye of a media storm since launching an AI-driven feature, “Insights,” in its newly renamed Opinion section, now “Voices.” The paper’s effort to increase reader ...
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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 ...