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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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[–] mint@beehaw.org 5 points 1 year ago

so many of the replies to this post are so embarrassing lol. just because you can't tell the difference between good and bad writing doesn't mean that real writers should be replaced by bots that literally produce a facsimile of written content, as opposed to content with a point, which an LLM can't actually do.

like you think you're looking at bad writing, but when the robots start churning out shit articles you'll realize that you'd rather have a human than this nonsense