(cont’d)
…with “key takeaways” and regurgitated paragraphs that all follow the same format. It’s gross, and yet it generates an article long enough with enough keywords to show up on Google.
Ironically, this article itself reads like it was written by AI.
tbf this is not very much different from how many flesh’n’blood journalists have been finding content for years. The legendary crack squirrels of Brixton was nearly two decades ago now (yikes!). Fox was a little late to the party with U.K. Squirrels Are Nuts About Crack in 2015.
Obviously, I want flesh’n’blood writers getting paid for their plagiarism-lite, not the cheapskates who automate it. But this kind of embarrassing error is a feature of the genre. And it has been gamed on social media for some time now (eg Lib Dem leader Jo Swinson forced to deny shooting stones at squirrels after spoof story goes viral)
I don’t know what it is about squirrels…
Forbes is not much better, their “articles” are mostly garbage.
Can you remove the link that the author refused to link, or is that an automatic Lemmy feature?
I can’t edit the top box, but I edited mine to take out the duplicate text. The link was automatic though.
I don’t really get the hostility towards AI scraping. Don’t we want to have a healthy shared graph of human knowledge? This data is also used by open source models. It’s poisoning the well for everybody to spite some companies who also have the resources to filter this - so you’re really just hurting the good guys.
Hate is making people do stupid things. It’s emberassing to call yourself a gamer these days ngl.
Because regurgitation without understanding leads to demonstrably untrue information being propagated as fact. There have been a number of instances also where AIs have straight up made stuff up as well.
Its shouldn’t be uses as a fact tool tho and not intended for it.