Gizmodo’s staff isn’t happy about G/O Media’s AI-generated content

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G/O Media, who owns popular tech site Gizmodo along with a slew of other outlets, began publishing AI-generated articles last week, despite strong objections from many of the members of its staff, according to The Washington Post. The articles are all credited to various bots - Gizmodo Bot, for example - with no other indication that the article was created using an AI chatbot. Unsurprisingly, the stories needed a lot of work.

The internal reaction to Gizmodo's first chatbot-created story - a chronological list of Star Wars movies that wasn't chronological - wasn't exactly enthusiastic, with journalists reportedly writing in Slack that it was actively hurting our reputations and credibility."

Brown told staff in an email in late June...

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