A controversial AI-powered local news site really stepped in it this week — by accidentally accusing a regional district attorney of murder.As Techdirt first reported, an article appeared on Hoodline San Jose — one of the media network’s many local news sites that span the US — earlier this month with a gruesome headline: “SAN MATEO COUNTY DA CHARGED WITH MURDER AMID ONGOING SEARCH FOR VICTIM’S REMAINS.”That’s bleak stuff, not to mention a crime that probably would have made national news. But there’s an important reason why it didn’t hit national airwaves: there was a…
