Americans increasingly distrust the media, with half of them saying national news outlets intend to mislead or deceive them into adopting a specific viewpoint, a Gallup and Knight Foundation study found in February.
A recently introduced news site, Boring Report, thinks it’s found an antidote to public skepticism by enlisting artificial intelligence to rewrite news headlines from their original sources and summarize those stories. The service says it uses the technology to “aggregate, transform, and present news” in the most factual way possible, without any sensationalism or bias.
