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Gizmodo Owner Vows to Keep Publishing AI-Generated Articles After...
Fool Me Once After a disastrous toe-dipping into AI-generated content, the owner of Gizmodo is doubling down and pledging to publish even more lazily bot-written articles. As Vox reports, G/O Media —...
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Google Secretly Showing Newspapers an AI-Powered News Generator
Google is secretly showing off an AI tool that can produce news stories to major newspapers, including The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Wall Street Journal. The tool, dubbed Genesis,...
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Redditors Invented a Fake Word and an AI Site Published an Article Thinking...
AI Copycat Leave it to Redditors to pick a petty but oh-so-sweet fight with an AI-written website, tricking it into making an idiotic error. Recently, dedicated perusers of the "World of Warcraft"...
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G/O Tells Staff Not to Worry About Everyone Mocking Their Horrible AI Content
Media conglomerate G/O Media is hellbent on using AI to generate a flood of content that, so far, has been riddled with errors — and it's now telling staff that they shouldn't worry about all the...
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USA Today Owner Pauses AI Articles After Butchering Sports Coverage
Fumble That was fast. The Columbus Dispatch, a newspaper serving the Columbus, Ohio area, has suspended its AI efforts after its AI-powered sports writing bot was caught churning out horrible, robotic...
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Gizmodo Is Stripping Journalists’ Bylines Off AI-Translated Articles
G/O Media's vision of the future continues to come into focus. Unfortunately, as it stands, that vision seems increasingly human-free. To recap: last week, Gizmodo owner G/O Media fired the human...
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The A.V. Club's AI-Generated Articles Are Copying Directly From IMDb
When the iconic entertainment site The A.V. Club started publishing AI-generated articles earlier this summer at the directive of its owner, G/O Media, the backlash was intense. "The A.V. Club used to...
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MSN Deletes Plagiarized, Incoherent AI Articles, Then Continues Cranking Out...
Earlier today, we published a story about Microsoft's MSN news portal syndicating a garbled, seemingly AI-generated article about the recent, tragic death of former NBA player Brandon Hunter. The...
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Sports Illustrated Published Articles by Fake, AI-Generated Writers
There was nothing in Drew Ortiz's author biography at Sports Illustrated to suggest that he was anything other than human. "Drew has spent much of his life outdoors, and is excited to guide you through...
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Sports Illustrated Union Says It’s “Horrified” by Publication of AI-Generated...
Yesterday, we reported that Sports Illustrated — the esteemed magazine once considered the standard for sports journalism — has been churning out content under the bylines of fake authors with...
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Business Insider's Parent Company Signs Deal With OpenAI
German media giant Axel Springer, which owns Business Insider and Politico and many other publications, has announced a "global partnership" with ChatGPT maker OpenAI to "strengthen independent...
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80 Percent of Americans Think Presenting AI Content as Human-Made Should Be...
In fascinating research, new polling from the research and advocacy nonprofit AI Policy Institute (AIPI) found that 80 percent of Americans think presenting AI content as human-made should be illegal....
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Police Say AI-Generated Article About Local Murder Is "Entirely" Made Up
Alternative Facts Before Christmas, the Southern New Jersey town of Bridgeton was best known for hosting the state's first zoo — but now, an artificial intelligence-generated news report about a murder...
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CNET’s Publisher Having Trouble Selling It Due to AI Scandal
CNET parent company Red Ventures has been looking to sell off the stalwart technology site, according to a new report from Axios. But unfortunately for Red Ventures, it's had a tough time finding a...
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Sports Illustrated Publisher Laying Off Staff After AI Scandal
The union of Sports Illustrated says that the legendary magazine's publisher, The Arena Group, is laying off many or perhaps all its staff following a failed payment to the brand's licensor — leaving...
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Former Google News Director Admits Big Tech Is Killing Journalism
Between many massive rounds of industry layoffs, a changing technological landscape, and increasingly eroding public trust in the news, the future of journalism is muddier than ever. And according to...
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Amid Brutal Media Layoffs, Google "Tests" Deleting News Tab
Google's News tab suddenly disappeared for many users this week, a Thursday Nieman Labs report revealed, sparking a fresh round of existential dread in the journalism industry. Between new rounds of...
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Google Quietly Paying Journalists to Generate Articles Using Unreleased AI
Google's foray into AI-generated journalism — and maybe-possibly destroying the already-teetering media industry along the way — continues. Adweek reports that Google is paying a select group of...
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Wikipedia No Longer Considers CNET a "Generally Reliable" Source After AI...
Remember last year, when we reported that the Red Ventures-owned CNET had been quietly publishing dozens of AI-generated articles that turned out to be filled with errors and plagiarism? The revelation...
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Journalist Startled to Discover His Byline Has Been Replaced by Bot
Vampire Independent New journalistic nightmare unlocked: a defunct digital publication was revived from the media graveyard, only to have its Frankensteiners re-attribute old articles to bots....
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