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AI writes articles for website for months and 'no one noticed'

Quratulain Tejani
The Sun
Fri, 13 Jan 2023 11:42 UTC

A POPULAR news outlet has been publishing articles written by AI since November, keeping it on the down low.

Tech media site CNET has been publishing the articles since November, and lots of readers don't seem to have noticed.

"What is a credit card charge-off?" was the first AI-written article, published on November 11 by CNET Money.

The portal has reportedly churned out and published 73 AI-generated articles since then, reports Futurism.

"This article was created using an AI engine and reviewed, fact-checked, and edited by our editorial staff," reads a note on the website under the headline, date and author/editor credits.

The publication mentioned on its website that it doesn't compromise on its journalistic integrity and that a team of editors is involved in the editorial process "from ideation to publication."

Ironically, Jackson Ryan, a reporter for the tech and news site wrote an article on the website last month where he said that journalism jobs are safe from being pounced on by technology when talking about ChatGPT and artificial intelligence.

"It definitely can't do the job of a journalist," Ryan wrote of ChatGPT. "To say so diminishes the act of journalism itself."

Social media users recently took to Twitter to discuss their shock at finding out about the AI writers.

One person said: "I'll admit I was quite taken aback to see that CNET is now publishing entire articles generated by AI -- a grim inflection point in an already-bleak job market for journalists."

"The quality and structure of those articles is atrocious," added another.

The applications of artificial intelligence have taken the tech industry by storm but media outlets are exploiting it to the fullest.

Associated Press was one of the pioneers of applying AI to its newsroom and boasts about leveraging the technology on its website.

"Today, we use machine learning along key points in our value chain, including gathering, producing, and distributing the news."

In the 2020 elections, The Washington Post used artificial intelligence for live campaign updates on their podcasts.

Comment: Mainstream journalism that consists of churning out articles that parrot establishment press releases - sometimes even word for word - is already pretty close to computer generated content.

Reader Comments

Night · 2023-01-14T00:10:16Z

Actually , it's quite good. I asked it to write a poem for my daughter's bday. Not only it did excellent, it was sweet , personal and tender, as if it has a heart . I asked for spiritual poem. It did that. All the right stuff and i enjoyed it. Ok. I'm not objective as I'm totally suck at writing poems. Can't do it at all. So i can be easily impressed. You can asked it to write in a different way, and it does.I asked for jazzy Christmas song. It wrote a very nice song and recommended which apps I can use to make and produce music for it. It took less than 3 seconds to come up with things. I ask for essay in Russian, it wrote it. I chatted in german and it corrected my mistakes (I'm a beginner level yet) It's quite scary. What it could not do is to converse on challenging philosophical themes as it can only give out what's info put in there, not a truly argument. And posted an error message when i asked not an obvious question challenging it previous statement. So not a thinker yet. Only yet.

Here is the link to what Jordan Peterson thinks about it after using it.

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Buffalo_Ken · 2023-01-14T00:15:15Z

Night - could it surprise you in the evening - could it be contrary for no apparent reason?

Who cares how many languages it speaks - did it have heart?

If not, tis nothing but pre-programmed ai, and I'm surprised you would be fooled by that.

Of course we all need consolation and a robot telling you what you think already can be comforting I reckon in the short term.

In the long term tis empty promises programmed by another.

BK

Night · 2023-01-15T06:49:24Z

Buffalo_Ken i know, Bill. I asked for a poem in Rumi and Omar Khayam style. Gave it a modern theme. It's just so strange that it can put together words in such a beautiful way, with such meaning and as if truly were from great poets .... you know what I mean? Do you want a song or a poem? Who do you like?

It's also gives out liberal bs talk points if asked about certain subjects. It can't pull different points together and draw new conclusions . So .... great language tool, but tool only.

sass ·

Talk about entropy.

· 2023-01-14T00:29:23Z

Buffalo_Ken · 2023-01-14T00:31:34Z

sass - entropy is hard to discuss because the idea of it just seems to float away in the wind....

Buffalo_Ken · 2023-01-14T00:32:07Z

sass - last time I bet against entropy I lost

or at least that is what entropy said when it floated off with my bet

~

little did entropy know - I had a gnat up my sleeve and that gnat ate entropy up and it all started over again - like a dream

the bet remains unresolved but I'll get entropy in the end

Good Optics · 2023-01-14T04:45:51Z

"The quality and structure of those articles is atrocious,"

Gee, and what have been bitching about for months around here

codis · 2023-01-14T12:32:12Z

Quratulain Tejani

The Sun

AI writes articles for website for months and 'no one noticed'

That's easy to explain.

Everybody with a trace of common sense and critical thinking left had quit reading the Sun and other MSM tabloids at least a year ago. And for the rest remaining, well ...

Demore · 2023-01-14T14:56:59Z

How do we know there is not one such right here, commenting ?

Baybars · 2023-01-15T18:13:47Z

Demore .... :jawdrop:...

Dwoods44 · 2023-01-14T15:28:15Z

It is a narrative. The narrative is that the AI is good and can do a good job that fools people into thinking it is not AI.

There are AI doctor algorithms that will diagnose you. There are Google algorithms that assess your likes and dislikes that influences the search for information. There are series like Battlestar Galactica that present humanoid AI as life like. The movie Captain America the Winter Soldier, presents the idea that consciousness of a NAZI was uploaded to a computer. This is how the globalist psychopaths think.

The intent is to make AI acceptable and seen as useful. The next is the AI implants will make you think better and react better. Smart Cities promote AI as the great Big Brother that can control city and crime. People are being manipulated.

codis · 2023-01-14T15:44:44Z

Dwoods44

here are AI doctor algorithms that will diagnose you. There are Google algorithms that assess your likes and dislikes that influences the search for information. There are series like Battlestar Galactica that present humanoid AI as life like. The movie Captain America the Winter Soldier, presents the idea that consciousness of a NAZI was uploaded to a computer. This is how the globalist psychopaths think.

Fooling the common ignorant is easy. Software that creates text output emulating humans are as old as I am (more then 50 years ...).

In real-world applications, the "AI" the globalists' minions come up with can't even compete with a house fly.

Dwoods44 · 2023-01-14T20:38:16Z

codis I agree. Though I think their globalist short term goal is just to chip everyone so that they can be monitored, manipulated and "turned off" if they are thinking wrongly.

codis · 2023-01-15T08:17:32Z

Dwoods44

Though I think their globalist short term goal is just to chip everyone so that they can be monitored, manipulated and "turned off" if they are thinking wrongly.

That has been their goal, probably still is (albeit unachievable now, I think).

But they don't need "AI" for that. Just an implanted transmitter, and a surveillance grid. All the rest happens in the backbone servers.

At the moment, the smartphone acts as stand-in for the implant, every good slave has one, and always carries it with him. I am sure the implant was intended to use the same network.

This is were 5G comes into play, reducing network cell size from several hundred yards to a few dozen yards, thus reducing the locating inaccuracy by an order of magnitude.

The "turning off" part would be relatively simple, just release a lethal substance into the bloodstream on external command.

Dwoods44 · 2023-01-15T15:29:27Z

codis Like you, I think they are failing in their plan, unless 5G through smart phones can affect people neurologically or physiologically.

codis · 2023-01-15T16:00:23Z

Dwoods44 I know there is much brouhaha around, but I think not. The actual transmission power of 5G devices is much smaller than 3G and 4G, exactly because of the smaller cell sizes, i.e. shorter distances.

And to be honest, I think all reports about self-assembling electronics (like WLAN routers and devices) in the clot shot are misinformation and/or ignorant hyperbole. What would it gain, compared to the smartphone the sheeple (user) carries voluntarily ?

Winternights3 · 2023-01-14T18:55:25Z

A1 has been marketed as being infallible, a Gold standard operating platform that cannot be questioned, there are others in many fields of science and medicine.

I have been subjected to Gold standard procedures, had wires tap up into my brain from my grion and the results just cannot be put into the Dock, what a load of BOLLOCKS, just yet another way that academia makes the masses believe that they are inferior to technology.

bobpinto · 2023-01-15T12:44:16Z

"The quality and structure of those articles is atrocious," added another.

So how do you tell the difference between poor AI writing skills and organic human poor writing skills? Humans have spell check and still can't spell.

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