LA Times to display AI-generated political rating on opinion pieces

Los Angeles paper's Insights' tool comes after months of public debate between opinion staff and billionaire owner

Some Los Angeles Times opinion pieces will now be published with an artificial intelligence-generated rating of their political content, and an AI-generated list of alternative political views on that issue, the paper's biotech billionaire owner announced on Monday.

The new AI Insights" feature will only be applied to a range of opinion content in the paper, not its news reporting, according to a public letter announcing the change from Patrick Soon-Shiong, the medical entrepreneur who bought the Los Angeles Times in 2018.