The Washington Post’s rollout of AI-generated podcasts hit a humiliating roadblock after staff called internally for the project to be pulled over major errors, according to Semafor.

The publication, owned by billionaire Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, announced this week it was launching a “personalized, AI podcast experience” within its app.

But within 48 hours of launch, the project sparked internal backlash in the newsroom after the AI-generated podcasts were found to contain errors, Semafor reported.

According to four people familiar with the situation cited by Semafor, errors ranged from pronunciation mistakes to misattribution or invented quotes, and added commentary that appeared to present a source’s remarks as the newspaper’s own position.

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