• key_lime_pie@alien.topB
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    The Associated Press started using AI to publish reports on company earnings in 2014. Using it is not new, but abusing it is.

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        As the link you provided explains, Journatic was not AI. Journatic was hiring Filipinos for 35 cents an article and selling the work as being done by local reporters.

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          Mechanical Turk or actual software isn’t the point. They were hiding the fact that they were outsourcing to cheaper labor pools with lower level of accountability behind fake reporter names.

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            It is the point, you’ve just decided to make a different point. That’s fine, it adds to the conversation, but that isn’t what was being talked about. What was being talked about was using AI to write articles. Journatic was not doing that.