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AI-Powered 'Insights' Feature for the Los Angeles Times Allegedly Justifies Ku Klux Klan’s History
- Occurred
- Mar 4, 2025
- Published
- Mar 5, 2025
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
The Los Angeles Times removed its AI-generated “insights” feature after it is alleged to have produced a defense of the Ku Klux Klan. The AI reportedly framed the hate group as a product of societal change rather than an extremist movement. The AI tool, developed by Perplexity and promoted by owner Patrick Soon-Shiong, was designed to provide “different views” on opinion pieces.
Developers
- Perplexity
Deployers
- Los Angeles Times
- Patrick Soon-Shiong
Harmed parties
- Los Angeles Times readers
- Los Angeles Times
- General public
Tags
- Los Angeles Times
- Journalism
- Bias
- Racism
- Alignment failure
- Content moderation failure
- Ku Klux Klan
Classification
Category confidence: 90%
Severity confidence: 85%
Rationale: AI language model generated harmful content justifying hate group, leading to feature removal.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8