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recent bookmarks from jmI Work for CNET’s Parent Company. Its AI-Generated Articles Disgust Me.2023-01-30T16:21:04+00:00
https://futurism.com/red-ventures-essay
jmA human freelancer might have a typo here or there, or maybe a misconception about APR versus APY. But an article by an AI can be total, authoritative-sounding gibberish. The poor editor in charge of fact-checking whatever the Machine produces isn’t looking for a needle in a haystack; they’re faced with a stack of needles, many of which look remarkably like hay.
]]>ai chatgpt red-ventures cnet journalism churnalism future grimhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:bb3c7aaa6c5d/CNET's AI Journalist Appears to Have Committed Extensive Plagiarism2023-01-24T09:21:26+00:00
https://futurism.com/cnet-ai-plagiarism
jmAll told, a pattern quickly emerges. Essentially, CNET's AI seems to approach a topic by examining similar articles that have already been published and ripping sentences out of them. As it goes, it makes adjustments — sometimes minor, sometimes major — to the original sentence's syntax, word choice, and structure. Sometimes it mashes two sentences together, or breaks one apart, or assembles chunks into new Frankensentences. Then it seems to repeat the process until it's cooked up an entire article. [...]
The question of exactly how CNET's disastrous AI was trained may end up taking center stage as the drama continues to unfold. At a CNET company meeting late last week [...] the outlet's executive vice president of content and audience refused to tell staff — many of them acclaimed tech journalists who have written extensively about the rise of machine learning — what data had been used to train the AI.
The legality of using data to train an AI without the consent of the people who created that data is currently being tested by several lawsuits against the makers of prominent image generators, and could become a flashpoint in the commercialization of the tech.]]>ai cnet content seo spam llms plagiarism training-datahttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:29e4b68b2827/Dodgy history of the firm behind "coal power plant reopening to mine blockchain"2018-04-12T11:43:10+00:00
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