CNET Has Been Quietly Publishing AI-Written Articles for Months

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    I wonder if AI can also fix their horrible website design. I haven't been on CNET for years. And I think this AI stuff is a bad trend. Just about all of the helpdesk ''chat bots'' are dumb as hell and I don't expect AI to improve the quality of articles either.
     
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    Chatbots and AI written articles are something else. Chatbots are stupid because they can't respond correctly to human questions. One thing and each of a hundred people will describe/solve it differently. But articles are a compilation/selection of sources where the AI has clearly set frameworks.
     
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    techradar etc are the same, i think. Nowadays is quite hard to find "independent" reviews of softwares/hardwares etc, because results are more or less paid.
     
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    Yes, I can see why they would like to use AI on certain websites, I just wonder if it will improve quality. A lot of newspaper websites repackage news from other websites anyway, AI will give them a faster way of doing this. A real human would only have to check if everything is correct.
     
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    That's the point. AI isn't so great, at least not now, that it can completely replace humans.
     
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    CNET pauses publishing AI-written stories after disclosure controversy
     
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    CNET is overhauling its AI policy and updating past stories
     
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    and so do ghacks owned by softonic, other yellowpress to follow
    (Brandon Eich is NOT CEO of mozilla and Brinkman corrected that article)
     
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