Posted on 01/14/2023 5:12:25 AM PST by FarCenter
CNET reporter Jackson Ryan published an article last month describing how ChatGPT, an AI that can generate human-sounding text, would affect journalists and the news industry: “ChatGPT Is a Stunning AI, but Human Jobs Are Safe (for Now).”
“It definitely can’t do the job of a journalist,” Ryan wrote of ChatGPT. “To say so diminishes the act of journalism itself.”
The article said ChatGPT isn’t coming for journalists’ jobs just yet, but the very publication that ran Ryan’s article has been quietly publishing articles written by AI since November, according to Futurism and online marketer Gael Breton. The AI-written CNET articles bear the byline CNET Money Staff which is identified on the outlet’s website as “AI Content published under this author byline is generated using automation technology.”
CNET responded in a linked statement via email, saying the Money editorial team was trying out the technology “to see if there’s a pragmatic use case for an AI assist on basic explainers around financial services topics.”
CNET’s Editor in Chief, Connie Guglielmo, said in the statement that the company’s goal had been if the AI engine would be able to assist their “busy staff of reporters and editors with their job to cover topics from a 360-degree perspective.”
The company questioned if CNET would benefit from AI content to provide available facts, allowing readers to “make better decisions.”
The first article written by CNET Money Staff was published on November 11 with the headline, “What is a credit card charge-off?” Since then, the news site has published 73 AI-generated articles, but the outlet says on its website that a team of editors is involved in the content “from ideation to publication. Ensuring that the information we publish and the recommendations we make are accurate, credible, and helpful to you is a defining responsibility for what we do.”
The outlet says they will continue to publish each article with “editorial integrity” and says, “Accuracy, independence, and authority remain key principles of our editorial guidelines.”
Most of the stock market “analysis” written by “experts” on mainstream web sites could easily be replaced by AI.
It is meaningless drivel.
How hard can it be to paraphrase a press release?
This is why all the articles are starting to look and read the same.
The advanced versions of AI will perhaps be able to combine words into unique insults.
You can bet that human reporting will become the minority of what is published.
What are the consequences of this to Free Speech?
Eventually one AI program will come to dominate reporting.
You can bet that the “Style” of that reporting will have a Leftist bent by default.
Blackrock has spent tons of money on it. Heck, they sell access to the data the AI spits out based on the trends. I believe the giant push for WallStreet into residential real estate was from Blackrock’s AI recommendations.
Connie was a darn good journalist. Good for Connie.
I know I’m in the wrong place when everyone believes the same. Nothing unique. No Truth. No Beauty. Goodness is relative.
“The advanced versions of AI will perhaps be able to combine words into unique insults.”
‘Your mother was a hamster, and your father smelt of elderberries!”
It’s amazing to me CNet even still exists. It was a great website in the 90s, excellent reviews, great downloads. But boy they went to crap fast. I haven’t gone there in over a decade. From what I saw then AI reporting could only be an improvement.
ChatGPT pulls sentences from the web. In other words, this is plagiarism.
What job is that? To take deep state talking points and parrot them?
CNET’S COIMPUTEER DID THE AUTO LAYOFF THING WE’RE ALL UNEMPLYED!
To replace the Woke you would need Artificial Idiotic.
Ben Shapiro played with this on a video I saw and damned if the thing didn’t have a liberal bent to it.
“giant push for WallStreet into residential real estate was from Blackrock’s AI recommendations”
It was a truly crackpot idea—which all the “investors” are going to learn the hard way.
While the total residential real estate is gigantic, the trading (transaction) market is relatively small and not very liquid—perfect ingredients for a panic and crash eventually.
I suppose that AI can be programmed to systematically lie like regular “journalists”.
I read that a few “residential real estate” funds were denying withdrawals since it really wasn’t setup to hold large cash reserves to fund flipping funds. When interest rates started spiking the thought people had was value would drop. Those funds are heavily leveraged so a 5-10% price drop will sink them. I hope so. Greed and max profit off the working class is not a virtue that they should be trying to maximize profits IMHO. I have no issue with profits from efficiency, market forces … but they were trying to turn to be slum lords. Hope they get squeezed big time.
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