Wyoming reporter caught using AI to create fake quotes and stories
by Associated Press from Technology | The Guardian on (#6PZB9)
Robotic, peculiar wording in recent issues of Cody Enterprise tipped a veteran reporter off
A quote from Wyoming's governor and a local prosecutor were the first things that seemed slightly off to Powell Tribune reporter CJ Baker. Then, it was some of the phrases in the stories that struck him as nearly robotic.
The dead giveaway, though, that a reporter from a competing news outlet was using generative artificial intelligence to help write his stories came in a 26 June article about the comedian Larry the Cable Guy being chosen as the grand marshal of the Cody Stampede parade.
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