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Top news app caught sharing “entirely false” AI-generated news (arstechnica.com)
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[–] [email protected] 32 points 5 months ago (2 children)

The app? Or the news company/network.

[–] [email protected] 45 points 5 months ago (4 children)

"NewsBreak", a free app with roots in China that is the most downloaded news app in the United States.

Never heard of it. Hard to believe it's the most downloaded news app. I guess I'm out of touch.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 months ago

50M+ downloads on Google Play. Hard to verify if farmed tho.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago

“Most downloaded” just means “biggest phone farm”.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

I was expecting it to be Ground News considering how much they advertize on YouTube.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Do most Americans really get their news from Chinese AI now? I can’t really believe that but then sadly maybe I can…

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Probably propogated by TikTok or similar operations, I hope the 2 new laws passed alongside the tiktok forced sale makes them divest and stop sharing data overseas.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

China will always win. It’s just a numbers game at this point. Thankfully I’ll be dead and gone by then.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

If it's purely a numbers game then I'm interested to see how India develops over the next 50 years.