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The new AI chatbotfollows theClimate Answerschatbot, which the publication released earlier this year.
Unlike the climate journalism-focused Climate Answers, Ask the Post culls its answers from anything published since 2016.
The AI uses algorithmic ranking to match answers to questions and ensure they are relevant.
Like Climate Answers, the new AI chatbot enforces strict guardrails on how it responds.
That way, it avoids any compulsion by the AI to hallucinate or provide wrong answers.
The AI will just say it can’t answer at all.
There’s an obvious appeal for streamlined information access that supplies reliable answers without long research in the archives.
Similar tools will likely crop up at the intersection of AI and news media elsewhere.
For instance, Meta and Reutershave partneredto supply Meta AI with information from Reuters articles.
