{"id":197933,"date":"2026-03-21T06:19:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T10:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/21\/state-making-questionable-use-of-ai-software-for-foia-responses\/"},"modified":"2026-03-21T06:45:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T10:45:10","slug":"state-making-questionable-use-of-ai-software-for-foia-responses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/21\/state-making-questionable-use-of-ai-software-for-foia-responses\/","title":{"rendered":"State making questionable use of AI software for FOIA responses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.freep.com\/story\/news\/politics\/2026\/03\/21\/state-michigan-foia-relativity-artificial-intelligence-software\/89224227007\/\">State making questionable use of AI software for FOIA responses<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.freep.com\/story\/news\/politics\/2026\/03\/21\/state-michigan-foia-relativity-artificial-intelligence-software\/89224227007\/\">https:\/\/www.freep.com\/story\/news\/politics\/2026\/03\/21\/state-michigan-foia-relativity-artificial-intelligence-software\/89224227007\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-03-21 06:19:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.freep.com\">www.freep.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Michigan is employing contracted AI software to answer some Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests in a manner that raises compliance concerns with state laws.<\/li>\n<li>The Detroit Free Press requested emails and records from a new state office lease in Detroit under the Michigan Freedom of Information Act in December.<\/li>\n<li>The Michigan Department of Technology, Management and Budget estimated a $1,620 cost to provide the records, part of which included $739.50 for AI tool usage.<\/li>\n<li>The response included time spent by state employees at $46.36 per hour, amounting to 19 hours in total.<\/li>\n<li>The use of AI for FOIA responses appears contentious due to potential non-compliance with state law, raising questions about transparency and regulation.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>State making questionable use of AI software for FOIA responses https:\/\/www.freep.com\/story\/news\/politics\/2026\/03\/21\/state-michigan-foia-relativity-artificial-intelligence-software\/89224227007\/ Publish Date: 2026-03-21 06:19:00&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":197934,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.freep.com\/gcdn\/authoring\/authoring-images\/2025\/10\/24\/NTHM\/86872868007-getty-images-610017128.jpg?crop=2118,1191,x0,y111&width=2118&height=1191&format=pjpg&auto=webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197933"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197933"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197933\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":197935,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197933\/revisions\/197935"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/197934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}