A Media Watchdog Is Helping To Train AI Models. It Says Chinese Propaganda Is More Reliable Than Many American News Sources.
In February 2023, a few months after ChatGPT's public release, the media watchdog NewsGuard announced a new tool for artificial intelligence companies. The company, which rates the credibility of news outlets on a 100-point scale, had been selling its data to advertisers with the goal of steering them away from "unreliable" sources. Now it would license the same data to AI companies in a "machine-readable" format, ideal for training chatbots to avoid "misinformation." The post A Media Watchdog …



