All you have to do is ask.Ask The Post AI delivers AI-generated answers from published Washington Post reporting. This is an experiment. Please verify by consulting the provided articles.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/ask-the-post-ai/How Ask The Post AI works
In response to your question, this tool searches articles published by our newsroom since 2016 and ranks the results based on relevancy. We then use a large language model to write a response to answer your question. This tool may not always understand your question or be able to provide an answer. In some cases we will provide a pre-written answer. If you have questions about this tool, please see our FAQ and AI policy or contact customer care.
How and why we built Ask The Post AIOur new AI product allows readers to ask questions about all our published reporting since 2016.
November 7, 2024
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/11/07/faq-ask-the-post-ai/https://www.washingtonpost.com/policies-and-standards/#aiWhat was the development process for Ask The Post AI?
Generative AI and the rise of conversational formats are opportunities for us to draw upon our long legacy of fact-based, thoroughly reported journalism to delight and inform readers in new ways.
Since launching Climate Answers, our generative AI tool for the climate-curious, we've been working on ways to expand the interface to allow readers to explore even more of our published reporting. Our machine learning team used the data from Climate Answers to refine how we retrieved and matched relevant articles from across all reporting published by the newsroom since 2016 in response to user queries.
Try Ask The Post AIHow does Ask The Post AI formulate a reply to my question?Ask The Post AI currently draws from text stories published by our newsroom since 2016. In future releases, we plan to incorporate reporting from our video and audio desks, as well as commentary and opinions.
AI policyThe Washington Post is committed to transparency, innovation and accuracy in delivering authoritative reporting and commentary to our audiences. Our highest duty is to our readers and to the truth. Commitment to our core values shapes how we approach new technology, including artificial intelligence. We are engaging with AI as a worthy subject for reporting and commentary. We are also exploring AI as a tool to speed and amplify Post reporting and deliver our journalism in novel and compelling ways.
Here is how we apply our standards when engaging with artificial intelligence:
We are transparent about how and when we use AI.
We use AI as a tool to support and accelerate our work in ways consistent with our news judgment and ethical standards. This means using AI to suggest related content, to translate between languages, or to sift through pages of documents or thousands of images. Whatever the task, we recognize this is a new and imperfect technology — meaning accuracy cannot be assumed and verification is critical.
Visuals hold a critical role in helping audiences understand the news. We will not employ AI to generate images, video or visual works that purport to represent reality without disclosing its use.
We believe in the value of our intellectual property and will protect the integrity of our work wherever it is used, in settings old and new.
Our people are our strength. Our journalists and technologists are essential to the work we do, and we are committed to ensuring they are involved in vetting, editing and contextualizing AI products, tools, and experiences.
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