Microsoft News AI-generated obituaries spark controversy and require human intervention

Microsoft’s news push AI-generated obituary has caused controversy, and manual intervention is imperative

Recently, Microsoft News, a news portal owned by Microsoft, has once again become the focus of public opinion due to a report about deceased NBA players. The cause of the incident was that after the unexpected death of former NBA player Brandon Hunter at the age of 42, a website called Race Track published an obituary written by an "Editor" and the article was titled "Brandon Hunter useless at 42" (useless, useless/worthless). The disgusting obituary, published on Microsoft Start (a personalized news feed) and the MSN News portal, sparked a backlash from readers.

It is understandable that AI-generated articles reduce costs and improve efficiency, but the key reason why Microsoft aroused public outrage is that this article seems to lack the review and publication of the final human editor, and Microsoft failed to review and supervise the article after it was published. As long as one of these two links operates normally, this obviously problematic article will not have such a bad impact today. Of course, this has once again made the public realize that the current role of AI is still an auxiliary tool, and there is still a long way to go before "full automation"

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