Some of the subscriber features here in the McKinley Park News include neighborhood-specific crime reports, building permits and notable arrests, pulled from publicly accessible databases, and produced and published by our own hand.

Our all-human review and publishing offers many benefits beyond making municipal data human-readable and augmented with maps, connections across data sources and other features that benefit the understanding of our audience.

When we publish, our journalist eyes and brains connect these data points to opportunities for further investigation and reporting, to trends we directly observe and track, and to basic practices that ensure accurate and truthful information.

AI-powered tools offer none of these, especially accuracy of information. When a neighborhood journal uses AI to extract and publish, and doesn't check the results, that enterprise is not only harming the environment while using a tool powered on stolen goods. It's also lazily pushing information it doesn't know is real or not, even though the AI will always lie and say it's telling the truth.

A short examination of recent efforts at AI-powered publication of crime data, compared against the actual data source , illuminates the AI's errors and misinformation. It also demonstrates that this outlet does not provide truthful and accurate information to you.

These are some of the reasons why at the McKinley Park News we are 100 percent human and zero percent AI . The value of our news lies entirely within the trust you give to us, and we are one of the few publications that ensconces a chain of trust through all our operations , including business practices and platform: not just content. AI is natively untrustworthy and can never match the trust you award to journalists who work for you.

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