A recent study of the Australian public found that more than half (54%) of respondents had no awareness or no understanding of the use of Generative AI in news reporting. That’s why we helped Crikey, a fiercely independent Australian news organization, to create the Bullshitometer.

It invites readers to select from a range of recent significant stories from the news story of the moment – the US election – then uses AI – bespoke large language models built by Pow Wow Solutions to instantly polarise those stories. The Bullshit’o’Meter shows users just how easy it is for bad faith news outlets to distort the truth and educates news consumers on how to spot and avoid AI-generated slop in the future.Stories are routinely being added to the Bullshit’o’Meter, allowing users to experiment with breaking news and polarise the election’s biggest stories with their own AI powered newsroom.