The Los Angeles Times recently introduced an AI tool called “Insights” to provide readers with diverse perspectives on opinion pieces. However, the tool faced immediate criticism when it generated a paragraph at the end of a Feb. 25th column at the paper that detractors said minimized the Ku Klux Klan’s (KKK) racist history.
- Discredited Daily Beast says the AI Bot “defends” the KKK.
- The least-trusted name in news, CNN, said the AI bot ‘sympathized’ with the KKK
- Farley Elliott at the San Francisco Gate equated the bot’s supposed sympathy for the KKK with the owners’ intent to show different perspectives, equating all viewpoints other than far-left ones as being in line with the KKK.
- The British Guardian said the AI bot “downplayed” the KKK
- The AV Club claimed it demonstrates that the bot ‘pivoted to racism’ within 48 hours.
The only problem is, of course, that the original statement did not minimize, defend, sympathize, or downplay the Klan’s sordid history.
It’s yet another left-wing media hate hoax.
A fact that the LA Times columnist who wrote the original piece has been gently trying to point out despite the manufactured left-wing hysteria about the matter since it first happened.