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How The New York Times uses a custom AI tool to track the “manosphere”

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The New York Times uses a custom AI tool to monitor “manosphere” podcasts.

For the past year, the Times has been using LLMs to create what’s internally known as the “Manosphere Report,” according to Nieman Lab. The AI-generated reports include episode transcripts and ...