Overview
- The Post launched a mobile app feature this week that assembles personalized audio briefings with selectable topics, hosts, and lengths, with plans to integrate Ask The Post AI.
- Within 48 hours, staff testing flagged problems including misattributed or invented quotes, inserted editorial framing, and frequent pronunciation errors.
- Head of standards Karen Pensiero told colleagues the output was "frustrating for all of us," while some editors urged pulling the tool immediately in internal Slack messages.
- A spokesperson declined to discuss internal deliberations and pointed to product chief Bailey Kattleman’s description of the podcasts as "an experimental product in a lot of ways."
- Testers also noted simulated speech tics like "ums" and prolonged pauses, and although the feature remains live, its rollout has intensified internal scrutiny and calls for clear accuracy guardrails.