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dirtmayor Jun 17, 2023

Owner of Destructoid, The Escapist, Siliconera, and others Fires Writers and Hires for "AI Editor" to Churn Out Hundreds of Articles Per Week

https://beehaw.org/post/607080

Owner of Destructoid, The Escapist, Siliconera, and others Fires Writers and Hires for "AI Editor" to Churn Out Hundreds of Articles Per Week - Beehaw

According to their website [https://gamurs.group/brands/], Publications owned by GAMURS Group include: Destructoid The Escapist Siliconera Twinfinite Dot Esports Upcomer Gamepur Prima Games PC Invasion Attack of the Fanboy Touch, Tap, Play Pro Game Guides Gamer Journalist Operation Sports GameSkinny

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JZshark Jun 17, 2023

Considering how many blogs are just AI generated garbage now, it doesn’t surprise me that the big players are looking to automate their articles.

The issue is that AI can’t really create… it just remakes what it already knows and has seen before. No hot takes. No new ideas. Just whatever has been done before.

Hopefully this isn’t the new way everything goes…

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DreamerOfImprobableDreams Jun 17, 2023

Also, Chat GPT at least still writes at the level of a somewhat talented ninth grader. Its prose is stilted, and the way it structures essays and stories is super formulaic.

It's absolutely not at the level it can replace a talented human writer yet. (I have no doubt that day is coming, probably sooner than we think, but it's not here yet.)

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ArugulaZ Jun 17, 2023

I've been to Destructoid. They don't hire talented human writers. They barely hire human writers.

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@ArugulaZ Sad what has become of dtoid. Back when it started it was the more indie alternative to the likes of joystiq. I guess the original owner sold it at some point.