Top news app in US has Chinese origins and ‘writes fiction’ with the help of AI

Billing itself as “the go-to source for all things local,” Newsbreak says it has over 50 million monthly users. It publishes licensed content from major media outlets, including Reuters, Fox, AP and CNN as well as some information obtained by scraping the internet for local news or press releases which it rewrites with the help of AI. It is only available in the U.S.

https://www.reuters.com/technology/top-news-app-us-has-chinese-origins-writes-fiction-with-help-ai-2024-06-05/

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At the risk of sounding like a luddite; AI in its current form and given the promises being made on its behalf is a disaster waiting to happen.

Now if you’ll excuse me, per Google Gemini’s instructions, I must add some glue to my pizza.

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Use wood glue-- it has a yellow tint so when it dries, it could almost pass for cheese!