# The LA Times published an op-ed warning of AI’s dangers. It also published its AI tool’s reply

‘Insight’ labeled the argument ‘center-left’ and created a reply insisting AI will make storytelling more democratic

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- **Lois Beckett** in Los Angeles
- Mon 3 Mar 2025 18.58 EST
- Last modified on Tue 4 Mar 2025 07.17 EST

Beneath a recent Los Angeles Times opinion piece about the dangers of artificial intelligence, there is now an AI-generated response about how AI will .

“Some in the film world have met the arrival of generative AI tools with open arms. We and others see it as something deeply troubling on the horizon,” the co-directors of the Archival Producers Alliance, Rachel Antell, Stephanie Jenkins and Jennifer Petrucelli, .

On Monday, the Los Angeles Times’s , labeled this argument as politically “center-left” and provided four “” underneath.

These new AI-generated responses, which are  before they are published, are designed to provide “voice and perspective from all sides”, the paper’s billionaire owner, Dr Patrick Soon-Shiong,  on Monday. “No more echo chamber.”

Now, a published criticism of AI on the LA Times’s website is followed by an artificially generated defense of AI – in this case, a lengthy one, .

Responding to the human writers, the AI tool argued not only that AI “democratizes historical storytelling”, but also that “technological advancements can coexist with safeguards” and that “regulation risks stifling innovation”.

Proponents argue AI’s potential for artistic expression and education outweighs its misuse risks, provided users maintain critical awareness,” the generated text reads.

Antell, Jenkins and Petrucell declined to comment on the AI response to their opinion piece.

The “different views” on LA Times opinion pieces are AI-generated in partnership with Perplexity, an AI company, according to the LA Times, while the “viewpoint analysis” of the piece as “Left, Center Left, Center, Center Right or Right” is generated in partnership with Particle News, .

While Soon-Shiong  that the AI-generated content beneath Los Angeles Times’s opinion pieces “supports our journalistic mission and will help readers navigate the issues facing this nation”, the union that represents his paper’s journalists take a different view.

While the paper’s journalists support efforts to improve news literacy and to distinguish news from opinion, “we don’t think this approach – AI-generated analysis unvetted by editorial staff – will do much to enhance trust in the media,” Matt Hamilton, the vice-chair of LA Times Guild, said in a statement on Monday. “Quite the contrary, this tool risks further eroding confidence in the news.”

The AI tool is only providing its extra commentary on , not on the paper’s news reporting, the Los Angeles Times said.

Most of the time, of course, the newspaper’s AI tool will not provide an AI’s response to arguments about artificial intelligence. Instead, as in , the AI “Insights” button provides pro-Trump responses to opinion pieces critical of Donald Trump.
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