In a nutshell: if you really want to spend money on developing an AI situated in a server who knows where to cover local issues, consider using that funding to…support a human being instead. I work with many @nondoc.bsky.social who are well worth the investment: t.co/FzQGkgt2IH

The inaccuracies in this piece are fairly low stakes, but you can see how this could get more troublesome if AI is incorrectly reporting electoral results, city budgets, emergency situations, etc.

All that is to say if you care enough about an issue to seek out an AI summary of it, you probably care enough to support local, contextual journalism from humans in the community that results in much better information.

There are plenty of other issues with the AI piece: an inaccurate count of total units in the proposed project, no real context for what was said by who, a false account of “next steps” for the proposal. If we’re nitpicking, wasted space on a proposal that was not heard.

This decision was not deferred, but the rezoning passed in a 4-1 vote (as you can see in my full recap and video of the council meeting): t.co/BqgayzVbrF

I was at this meeting yesterday evening until around 8 p.m., give or take. Much was discussed, many actions were taken, but the Creekside Cove PUD headlining this AI recap was the most contentious issue. The first issue is that the headline is entirely inaccurate.

That closely followed a January DoJ report that found Oklahoma County residents with behavioral health disorders face discrimination when interacting with “emergency response services:” nondoc.com/2025/01/03/d...

His is one of many cases in which competency restoration services are long delayed. Oklahoma recently approved a consent decree to settle a class action lawsuit filed over the state’s failure to provide those services: nondoc.com/wp-content/upl…

Ross Norwood, whose story is linked here, has spent over half a year there after being shot by police during a mental health crisis. He was declared mentally incompetent for trial, but as of today, still has not been transferred to the proper facility: nondoc.com/2024/12/06/s...