STONEZONE (Roger Stone) - Thiel-Backed AI Journalism Tribunal Pivots to Rating News Coverage
A Peter Thiel-backed project that proposed using artificial intelligence to adjudicate disputes against journalists is changing direction, shifting from an online “tribunal” toward a scoreboard-style system for rating news coverage. The startup, originally called Objection, allowed customers to pay $2,000 to challenge claims in published articles. Investigators would assemble evidence, invite the journalist to respond […] The post Thiel-Backed AI Journalism Tribunal Pivots to Rating News Coverage appeared first on StoneZone .
A Peter Thiel-backed project that proposed using artificial intelligence to adjudicate disputes against journalists is changing direction, shifting from an online “tribunal” toward a scoreboard-style system for rating news coverage. The startup, originally called Objection, allowed customers to pay $2,000 to challenge claims in published articles. Investigators would assemble evidence, invite the journalist to respond and submit the dispute to several large language models for a verdict. This caused scrutiny as people believed the process could pressure reporters, disadvantage investigations relying on confidential sources and give wealthy subjects a new tool for attacking unfavorable coverage. In other words, it could make the fake…Open