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What you oughta know
Microsoft published an article highlighting Ottawa, Canada tourist attractions recently.
Unfortunately, the pieceincluded a recommendationthat tourists visit a food bank.
The Vergeuploaded the full article on Imgurto confirm people can still see it.
X user Paris Marx spotted the strange recommendation first, though the linked article is no longer available.
Microsoft is really hitting it out of the park with its AI-generated travel stories!
It seemed like the recent article was an example of that setup resulting in pieces of lower quality.
The article was not published by an unsupervised AI.
We combine the power of technology with the experience of content editors to surface stories.
We are working to ensure this bang out of content isnt posted in future."
The phrasing suggests that AI was used, but that it was supervised.
Presumably, a human editor missed the insensitive inclusion and phrasing related to the food bank.
