News Summary

• The Guardian accused Microsoft of damaging its journalistic reputation by publishing an AI generated poll beside one of its articles on the Microsoft Start website.
• The poll created by an AI model on Microsoft s news platform speculated on the cause of a woman s death reportedly triggering reader anger and leading to reputational concerns for the news organization.
• The Guardian has a licensing agreement with Microsoft that allows the tech company to publish the newspaper s articles on Microsoft Start which serves as a news aggregation website and app.
• Following negative reactions the poll was removed but critical comments remained visible for a time before their removal.