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Top news app caught sharing “entirely false” AI-generated news (arstechnica.com)
submitted 5 months ago by Xatolos@reddthat.com to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] davidgro@lemmy.world 26 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Speaking of details wrong:

most downloaded local news app

  • 50,000,000+ downloads

Meanwhile Google News (which does local):

  • 1,000,000,000+ downloads
[–] Saik0Shinigami@lemmy.saik0.com 13 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Eh, for a while google news was a bake-in app. I'm okay excluding those figures.

[–] davidgro@lemmy.world 13 points 5 months ago

Yeah, but "2nd place" (if it's even that) is so far down that many of us including me haven't even heard of it before.