Earlier this week, the Washington Post announced that it would be launching “personalized” AI powered podcasts that would let users choose their own AI host to regale them on their choice of topics.

And now for an entirely unsurprising update: the AI podcasts have turned out to be complete, error ridden disasters.

Semafor reports that less than 48 hours after launching, the AI podcasts have sparked outrage among the WaPo’s rank and file and editors alike, after they caught the AI-generated podcasts committing ghastly journalistic sins, like inventing quotes and misattributing information.

“It is truly astonishing that this was allowed to go forward at all,” one WaPo editor fumed on Slack. “Never would I have imagined that the Washington Post would deliberately warp its own journalism an

See Full Page