Is this any worse than assembly-line journalism, where writers are churning out low-quality content en masse?
I suppose it's the last little fig leaf being blown away (by the combined blast of two thousand NVIDIA Tesla A100 cooling fans).
Sports Illustrated Published Articles by Fake, AI-Generated Writers
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#12> "After we reached out with questions to the magazine's publisher, The Arena Group, all the AI-generated authors disappeared from Sports Illustrated's site without explanation. Our questions received no response." What is The Arena Group? ( https://thearenagroup.net/ ). It's a publicly traded company for one. (Stock price: AREN (NYSEAMERICAN) $2.76 -0.03 (-1.08%)) > "The Arena Group is an innovative technology platf…
>I'm guessing ads are the main business here, therefore content generation in all ways that get people's attention is the goal (for cheap).
Yep. Last week they added a pop up requesting to disable ad blockers. You can decline and still read but it will pop up again on the next article.
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#13Tangentially related: " Microsoft Publishes Garbled AI Article [0] Calling Tragically Deceased NBA Player 'Useless' " [1]
[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20230913163653/https://www.msn.c...
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#14For years, ESPN has put machine generated predictions of upcoming games.
https://www.espn.com/nba/preview/_/gameId/401584885
"The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar."
Example paragraph:
"The two teams match up for the second time this season. The Nuggets defeated the Clippers 111-108 in their last meeting on Nov. 15. Jokic led the Nuggets with 32 points, and Paul George led the Clippers with 35 points."
100% generated from the stats table, and totally boring and devoid of life. Horrible.
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#15Is this any worse than assembly-line journalism, where writers are churning out low-quality content en masse?
Seems fundamentally dishonest, which makes it worse regardless of quality..no?
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#16Tangentially related: " Microsoft Publishes Garbled AI Article [0] Calling Tragically Deceased NBA Player 'Useless' " [1] [0] https://web.archive.org/web/20230913163653/https://www.msn.c... [1] https://futurism.com/msn-ai-brandon-hunter-useless
When I was a kid, AI only tried to convince us to leave our wives! How times have changed...
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#17Is this any worse than assembly-line journalism, where writers are churning out low-quality content en masse?
Kind of, because now 1 person can do the job of hundreds, or thousands, and now you'd either have to: 1. Invent new (bullshit) jobs for the thousands to do 2. Pay those thousands money to live (basic income) 3. Send them off to die, fighting for you and the 1 person commanding the AI, in the next major armed conflict
They could also find work doing something more productive.
This is the same challenge that humanity has faced since the invention of the wheel.
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#18Is this any worse than assembly-line journalism, where writers are churning out low-quality content en masse?
Kind of, because now 1 person can do the job of hundreds, or thousands, and now you'd either have to: 1. Invent new (bullshit) jobs for the thousands to do 2. Pay those thousands money to live (basic income) 3. Send them off to die, fighting for you and the 1 person commanding the AI, in the next major armed conflict
And why not real jobs for the thousands? Why does it have to be bullshit jobs?
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#19I know some folks who are doing this in the food blogging space, see https://tastytango.blog/
It's hard to pin down exactly what I find so unsettling about the practice – it's almost like the uncanny valley, but for written content that apes human expression instead of imagery?
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#20This battle will not be won by anyone other than the people using these tools to their advantage to pump and dump. The genie is long out of the box now. Future iterations of LLMs will not get worse but better. And already now, something like GPT-4 easily bypasses human detection if the output is inherently controlled by a human. Bad AI content can be detected super easily. ChatGPT is limited by its system prompts and…
> This battle will not be won by anyone
you could have stopped right there