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Gizmodo and Kotaku Staff Furious After Owner Announces Move to AI Content (futurism.com)
submitted 1 year ago by thejml@lemm.ee to c/technology@beehaw.org
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G/O Media, a major online media company that runs publications including Gizmodo, Kotaku, Quartz, Jezebel, and Deadspin, has announced that it will begin a "modest test" of AI content on its sites.

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The trial will include "producing just a handful of stories for most of our sites that are basically built around lists and data," Brown wrote. "These features aren't replacing work currently being done by writers and editors, and we hope that over time if we get these forms of content right and produced at scale, AI will, via search and promotion, help us grow our audience."

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[–] Meloku 10 points 1 year ago (3 children)

What all these trend chasing CEOs fail to grasp about ChatGPT is that the Neural Network is trained to return what looks like like a human written answer, but it is NOT, IN ANY CASE, GOING TO RETURN INFORMATION. If you ask ChatGPT to write an essay with sources, ChatGPT is going to write a somewhat coherent essay with what looks like sources, but it's going to be a crapshot if the sources are even real, because you asked for an essay with sources, not an essay USING any given source. Anyways, I'm going to heat some popcorn and wait for the inevitable fake articles and the associated debacle.

[–] count_duckula@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

ChatGPT is an engineering marvel in that it has understood the semantics of language. However, it has absolutely no idea what it is talking about beyond generating the next token in a string of what sounds like natural language. I wish more people would understand this nuance.

[–] xavier666@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

It's actually perfect for the current attention-span deficit generation

[–] TMoney@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

If you've seen articles most news agencies put out besides a select, high-quality few, I doubt anyone will be able to tell the difference. They're all shit. They're probably just switching from mechanical turk to this.

[–] TheDom@lemmynsfw.com 1 points 1 year ago

People won’t get this through their brains for some reason. Even the (slightly more) tech inclined here use chatGPT to answer askLemmy posts as if the ai knew anything