Wow! Who could possibly have seen this coming? “CNET Is Reviewing the Accuracy of All Its AI-Written Articles After Multiple Major Corrections”

https://gizmodo.com/cnet-ai-chatgpt-news-robot-1849996151

CNET Is Reviewing the Accuracy of All Its AI-Written Articles After Multiple Major Corrections

Big surprise: CNET's writing robot doesn't know what it's talking about.

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@garymarcus CNET claimed the articles had human editors. WTF
@tolortslubor asleep at the wheel. At least it wasn’t cars.
@garymarcus Teslas kill people. So did the New York Times when it helped lie the US into the Iraq War by publishing Dick Cheney aluminum tubes lies while citing him as an unnamed administration source. At the same time it was sitting on the story about the Bush administration unconstitutional mass domestic warrantless spying ops
@tolortslubor possibly the worst version of two wrongs make a right that I have heard I in years
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What?!! The bigger wow for me here is that they've actually been publishing automaton written articles!
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Wondering whether it might help to insist calling these "automatons" rather than AI ... Or perhaps that ship's sailed.
@garymarcus @burritojustice Chat-GPT is the George Santos of tech writing. Sounds good! Totally fabricated!!
@garymarcus *rubs face and sighs*
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Well, shit. I guess we can't trust CNET now. 🙃
@garymarcus The literal-minded straight-machine to humanity's comedy of errors. Wheeee!
@garymarcus If only there had been a sign…

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"What's the worst that could happen?" should probably not be treated as a rhetorical question in making business decisions.

@garymarcus hmmm, maybe they should be reviewing why they have ANY AI-written articles on their site at all.
@garymarcus They... They thought this was a good idea!!??
@garymarcus LOL
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The human editors were just checking for commas, I guess...
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What could possibly go wrong…
@garymarcus Are they having an AI review them? Sounds like the appropriate thing to do in order to avoid paying real people.
@garymarcus ChatGPT makes up articles to cite that don't exist last time I tried it!