The Guardian has accused Microsoft of damaging its journalistic reputation by publishing an AI-generated poll speculating on the cause of a woman’s death next to an article by the news publisher.

Microsoft’s news aggregation service publish…

On Tuesday, The Guardian accused Microsoft of damaging its journalistic reputation by publishing an AI-generated poll beside one of its articles on the Microsoft Start website. The poll, created by an AI model on Microsoft's news platform,…

More than three years after Microsoft gutted its news divisions and replaced their work with AI and algorithmic automation, the content generated by its systems continues to contain grave errors that human involvement could, or should, have…

Microsoft’s recent use of an AI-generated poll has sparked criticism from The Guardian, one of the UK’s leading news publishers. The tech giant’s news aggregation service displayed the automated poll alongside a Guardian article detailing t…

In 2020, Microsoft announced huge layoffs across MSN and Azure organizations, among others, due to the company replacing its editor and curators with AI algorithms. Now, the algorithms seem to have caused an issue between Microsoft and The …

The Guardian is demanding compensation from Microsoft after the tech giant inserted a "crass" AI-generated poll into one of its articles that asked readers to speculate on the cause of someone's death.

MSN, which has a licence to re-run som…

The Guardian claims that Microsoft has "deeply damaged" its reputation after an AI-generated poll was discovered running on a Guardian article about a woman found dead in Australia that was also published on Microsoft Start, a news aggregat…

What if instead of being deviously calculating, robots just turned out to be blazingly insensitive? You know, not end the world – just make it intolerable.

UK newspaper The Guardian submitted a complaint to Microsoft on Tuesday after the Mi…

Microsoft has shut off all its AI-generated polls on news articles and launched an investigation after the Guardian Media Group blasted the tech giant for a poll that ran alongside a story about a woman's death.

Driving the news: "A poll sh…

A newspaper publisher accused Microsoft of damaging its reputation after an AI-generated poll appeared next to one of its articles on an aggregation platform.

The Guardian reported on Lilie James, a 21-year-old water polo coach who was foun…

Microsoft is facing backlash after it used AI to create an insensitive poll speculating on the cause of a woman's death that was published alongside an article from The Guardian on Microsoft's news aggregation service, Microsoft Start.

The …

With generative AI now more widespread than ever, the importance of human intervention is becoming more apparent. It's barely been three months since Microsoft published an AI-generated article recommending Ottawa Food Bank as a top tourist…

An auto-generated poll that Microsoft embedded on its news aggregating platform alongside a Guardian article was “crass” and caused significant damage to The Guardian’s reputation, the newspaper said on Thursday.

The poll, which was posted …

How's AI in the media going? Well, Microsoft apparently ran a disgusting AI-generated poll next to a syndicated article about a woman who'd been found dead in Australia — and The Guardian, which published the original article in question, w…

Microsoft’s generative artificial intelligence tool inserted a “deeply concerning” poll into a Guardian news story asking readers to speculate on the cause of a woman’s death.

Tech giant Microsoft has a licence with The Guardian to publish …

As AI begins to eat its way into our lives more each day, its limitations become more obvious as it encounters situations its creators might not have envisioned. The latest example comes from Microsoft, which used AI to insert polls next to…

The Guardian has accused Microsoft of damaging its brand by adding an offensive AI-generated poll to one of its articles.

In a story reporting on the death of 21-year-old Lilie James, whose body was found with serious head injuries in Austr…