G/O Media’s AI ‘innovation’ is off to a rocky start
by Mia Sato from The Verge - All Posts on (#6CRP4)
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Last week, G/O Media leadership had news for staffers at the many publications the company owns: AI-generated articles were just around the corner.
We are both a leading technology company and an editorial organization that covers technology in world class fashion across multiple sites," editorial director Merrill Brown wrote in an email. So it is utterly appropriate - and in fact our responsibility - to do all we can to develop AI initiatives relatively early in the evolution of the technology."
G/O's early experiments with AI tools began on Wednesday through a couple of articles appearing on Gizmodo and The A.V. Club credited to the publications' respective bots. And almost immediately, there were embarrassing mistakes.
The Gizmodo...