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Knowing how AI frequently relies on having a large dataset to work from, and breaking news frequently not having any confirmed information, this seems ripe for abuse and errors. I would love to see details on their implementation and datasets. Especially because News Corp are known to take very political positions on topics.

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    1 year ago

    This is the same News Corp. that convinced the Australian government that Facebook owes them money whenever anybody (including News Corp. itself) shares a link on Facebook to one of their articles, all with the justification that a link tax was needed in order to fund journalism.