Microsoft took down a string of embarrassing travel articles created with 'algorithmic techniques.' But it says AI isn't the problem.

Microsoft took down a series of travel articles due to offensive and nonsensical content, claiming the mistake was due to human error rather than unsupervised AI, raising concerns about AI's impact on news.

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