“On Christmas Day, tragedy strikes Bridgeton, New Jersey, as gun violence rises in small towns.” This is the title that Newsbreak users were able to discover on December 25. Except that the drama recounted by the application, specialized in local information, never took place.
The Bridgeton Police Department, in the state of New Jersey, alerted the population on Friday, December 29. According to him, the Newsbreak article is “completely false.” It would be a story invented by artificial intelligence.
AI-assisted content
Above all, the police highlight a mention at the end of the article. It says: “This article contains content assisted by artificial intelligence tools. This content was assisted by AI and may contain errors. Please verify critical information with trusted sources.”
For Bridgeton police, the article is fiction created by an AI and made available to readers. The Futurismo site assures that Newsbreak did not respond to requests to explain the publication of this article and learn more about its origin. However, it can no longer be accessed in the app.
Source: BFM TV
