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‘World Of Warcraft’ Players Trick AI-Scraping Games Website Into Publishing Nonsense (www.forbes.com)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by someguy3@lemmy.ca to c/technology@lemmy.world
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...with “key takeaways” and regurgitated paragraphs that all follow the same format. It’s gross, and yet it generates an article long enough with enough keywords to show up on Google.

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[–] abrasiveteapot@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Because regurgitation without understanding leads to demonstrably untrue information being propagated as fact. There have been a number of instances also where AIs have straight up made stuff up as well.

[–] drmoose@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Its shouldn't be uses as a fact tool tho and not intended for it.