“Questions of accuracy arise as Washington Post uses AI to create personalized podcasts,” states NPR
The Washington Post‘s new offering, “Your Personal Podcast,” uses artificial intelligence to customize podcasts for its users, blending the algorithm you might find in a news feed with the convenience of portable audio, reports NPR.
The podcast, continues NPR, ” is “personalized automatically based on your reading history” of Post articles, the newspaper says on its help page. Listeners also have some control: At the click of a button, they can alter their podcast’s topic mix — or even swap its computer-generated “hosts.”
“The AI podcast immediately made headlines — and drew criticisms from people questioning its accuracy, and the motives behind it.
“Nicholas Quah, a critic and staff writer for Vulture and New York magazine who writes a newsletter about podcasts, says the AI podcast is an example of the Post‘s wide-ranging digital experiments — but one that didn’t go quite right.”
