Sports Illustrated was publishing articles under seemingly fake bylines. We asked their owner about it — and they deleted everything.
  • pyreal_@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    This is getting to be more and more common.

    Combined with the how loose media outlets are getting with “facts” means our society is moving in a genuinely scary direction.

    • ElceeCiv@alien.topBEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Yep, the article gets more depressing as you read on because you see how common it is

      We caught CNET and Bankrate, both owned by Red Ventures, publishing barely-disclosed AI content that was filled with factual mistakes and even plagiarism; in the ensuing storm of criticism, CNET issued corrections to more than half its AI-generated articles. G/O Media also published AI-generated material on its portfolio of sites, resulting in embarrassing bungles at Gizmodo and The A.V. Club. We caught BuzzFeed publishing slapdash AI-generated travel guides. And USA Today and other Gannett newspapers were busted publishing hilariously garbled AI-generated sports roundups that one of the company’s own sports journalists described as “embarrassing,” saying they “shouldn’t ever” have been published.

      also flashback to MSN publishing that “useless at 42” obituary