postscarceJul 1, 2023

Kotaku Staff Furious After Owner Announces Move to AI Content

G/O Media, an online media company that owns Gizmodo and Kotaku has announced that it will begin a "modest test" of AI content on its sites. #gaming

https://futurism.com/gizmodo-kotaku-staff-furious-ai-content

Gizmodo and Kotaku Staff Furious After Owner Announces Move to AI Content

G/O Media, an online media company that owns Gizmodo and Kotaku has announced that it will begin a "modest test" of AI content on its sites.

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Show threadChozo
The fact that I can open up ChatGPT right now and say "Write a Kotaku article about why Tetris is racist" and get a 100% believable result out of it should be a sign that they've been replaceable for a while now.
Jul 1, 2023 at 11:50pmWeb
Show threadyaomtcJul 2, 2023

Believable as in imitates the writing style, sure, but what's the point if it's factually incorrect?

From the article:

The company joins a growing number of media entities experimenting with the technology [...] These trials have already led to a flood of error-laden, plagiarized, and poorly written content due to badly implemented — and, some would argue, inherently unsuited AI models — that still have a strong tendency to make up facts.

Hate on Kotaku all you want but they don't make shit up as often as AI does

Show threadHelldiver_MJul 2, 2023

To be fair, Kotaku does sometimes make shit up. Like the Persona 5-Smash crossover lyrics being ableist thing. And they tried to double down on it for awhile if I recall right.

And yes, ChatGPT makes shit up all the time. More often then Kotaku.

I know in a post gamergate world, we need to be diligent for things like dog-whistles. And hating on Kotaku is arguably in dog-whistle territory. I guess in my opinion Kotaku is so bad, that we should be able to safely mock the crap out of them. I'm even more happy to mock any chuds that want to keep non-cis white males out of games. They just weren't relevant for this occasion.

Show threadHelldiver_MJul 2, 2023

Bahahaha, I just put that shit into ChatGPT and this is what I got:

https://chat.openai.com/share/20f322f8-76bc-4974-bb62-9b089fdd5297

ChatGPT

A conversational AI system that listens, learns, and challenges

Show threadHidingCatJul 2, 2023
WTF that is a whole load of baloney, it's hilarious. Also a good reminder for us who lean left to remember to be critical when discussing such things too.
Show threadNepentheJul 2, 2023

Say what you will, I need myself a racially diverse tetris now. We should all aspire to be L shaped block.

It's so hard to even make fun of that without sounding like I'm on the extreme right, but I am CACKLING

Show threadosarusanJul 2, 2023
That's hilarious, and about on par with most of the writing on so-called journalism sites these days. Glorious!
Show threadthingsiplayJul 2, 2023
@Helldiver_M That reads exactly like a typical dumb shit Kotaku article. No wonder, because it was trained from human data. I don't know what's more shocking, that our News outlets by human is so bad we think a robot wrote it, or if the AI is that good that we think a human wrote it. Both perspectives are frightening.
Show threadArugulaZJul 2, 2023
Video game journalism has been crappy for a long, loooong time. You ever read pre-Ziff Davis EGM or GamePro? It's like a lobotomy in print form.
Show threadCrowAletheJul 2, 2023

That’s so much fluff.

Fun to read but honestly felt like watching an Ancient Aliens episodes.

Show threaddeliriumJul 2, 2023
at least it's nonsense.
Show threadMayJul 2, 2023
Why is every point marked '1.' lol
Show threadHelldiver_MJul 2, 2023
I have no idea lamo.
Show threadFaceDeerJul 2, 2023
Maybe it's trying to use markdown to create a numbered list, in many flavours of markdown that would do it.
Show threadlunar_parkingJul 2, 2023

Here is mine lol

https://chat.openai.com/share/0d543566-427a-4b8b-bc2b-ef32ba4b8a45

ChatGPT

A conversational AI system that listens, learns, and challenges

Show threadAnonymousLlamaJul 2, 2023
Holy shit it's spot on for the type of outrage baiting I expected. I'm really impressed
Show threadvictronJul 2, 2023
Lmao it's awesome, I haven't read Kotaku in ages, so I don't know if it sounds Kotaku-y enough, but holy damn I can totally imagine a human nutjob writing that shit
Show threadshinobyJul 16, 2023

@Chozo Right? There is no need of this site anymore since I've got fingers and can use CGPT myself.

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