"Time recently unveiled a new AI experience-yes, a chatbot, but one trained on the entirety of Time's archive, about 750,000 articles going back to 1923. It has common AI-powered features like summarization, translation, and the ability to read an audio version of the article, but the main point is that the foundation of its knowledge base is a large corpus of human-verified journalism. Right now it's deployed only on politics and entertainment stories, according to Axios."
"I've been trying out the Agent to see if it provides a better experience than a more generic AI portal like Perplexity or ChatGPT-evaluating the outputs by looking at accuracy, recency, structure, and sourcing. Exploring the topic of the recent government shutdown and how it compares to other shutdowns in the past, I queried the Agent with the following prompt: Give me a briefing on the history of U.S. government shutdowns"
Chatbots in media have struggled despite renewed interest after ChatGPT's success, with several publishers launching chat portals and widgets to let readers explore content. Some publisher chatbots, including The Texas Tribune's, have achieved modest engagement gains. Chat features can improve site search, generate unique audience data, and potentially enable new business models. Time launched an AI Agent trained on its entire archive—about 750,000 articles since 1923—providing summarization, translation, and audio rendering, grounded in human-verified journalism. The Agent is currently applied to politics and entertainment coverage and has been compared against generic AI portals for accuracy, recency, structure, and sourcing.
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