• ObamaBinLaden@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    I usually respect ars technical for writing great stories. This time, however, they could’ve included the name of the app so it wasn’t clickbaity. It’s newsbreak for those wondering.

    • thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org
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      7 months ago

      Uh… The very first sentence mmmmm

      After the most downloaded local news app in the US, NewsBreak, shared an AI-generated story about a fake New Jersey shooting last Christmas Eve, New Jersey police had to post a statement online to reassure troubled citizens that the story was “entirely false,” Reuters reported.