The Verge:Source: CNET owner Red Ventures has used AI tools like Wordsmith to write stories for at least a year and a half, causing unease amid layoffs and restructuring — Fake bylines. Content farming. Affiliate fees. What happens when private equity takes over a storied news site and milks it for clicks?Alex Heath / @alexeheath: In which a senior editor uses ChatGPT to write her resignation letter: “While I may not have personally composed these words, I hope they convey the sincere appreciation I have for my colleagues and the work we have done together.” https://twitter.com/...Matthew Keys / @matthewkeyslive: Until recently, Red Ventures also owned TV Guide, Cord Cutters News and GameSpot, which were sold to Fandom for $500 million. It's not clear if any of these websites also had AI-related content on them. Do you know? Get in touch. https://matthewkeys.net/... https://twitter.com/...Eric Hananoki / @ehananoki: “CNET's editorial staff has often been left wondering: was this story written by AI or a co-worker? Even today, they're still not sure.” https://www.theverge.com/...Matthew Keys / @matthewkeyslive: Red Ventures, a marketing firm that owns CNET, has used artificial intelligence services to write content under fake bylines in an effort to game Google search and generate money from affiliate links. At the same time, it laid off human being workers. https://www.theverge.com/...@plognark: @TristanACooper Shit stacked on top of shit. Does help explain why Google searches get shittier every year, with a weird acceleration recently.@emilymbender: News outlets who use large language models (eg. #ChatGPT) to write any of their articles are abandoning journalistic ethics—and showing that they don't respect their readers/don't think their readers deserve actual reporting. Today's case in point: CNET https://gizmodo.com/...Dave Karpf / @davekarpf: The ratio of garbage to quality on the searchable internet is about to undergo a huge, awful shift. https://twitter.com/...Janus Rose / @janusrose: in CNET's defense, human tech journos who do nothing but regurgitate press releases about gadget tech specs don't have any journalistic credibility either https://twitter.com/...Chris Roush / Talking Biz News: The battle inside tech news site CNETTaylor Moore / @taylormooresays: Red Ventures is one of the weirdest companies I've ever worked for. And it flies under the radar as one of the biggest media owners in the country, probably because it's based in the South, not New York. Glad Mia is covering this! https://twitter.com/...Tristan Cooper / @tristanacooper: news of media layoffs and this report about AI-written articles both hit today at about the same time and they keep swirling around each other in my brain https://www.theverge.com/... https://twitter.com/...Danielle Riendeau / @danielleri: Hearing about the layoffs in games media today, and the mass layoffs at major, successful game dev studios (several stories this week) and reading this and https://www.theverge.com/... holy shit, I am very depressedWillie / @morewillie: the war with AI is well underway, it just may look a little different than you pictured https://www.theverge.com/...Alfred / @alng@journa.host: When Red Ventures bought CNET, an executive from the company held an intro Zoom call with the staff. — He said that part of the decision to buy the company was how impressed they were at CNET being the top search results for the stimulus check, above the federal government's own website. …@misscp: Glad this piece at least touches on the “assisting” AI has been doing well before the publicly reported November timeline! And the kicker is so true: ""Everyone at CNET is more afraid of Red Ventures than they are of AI."" https://twitter.com/...Jake Kastrenakes / @jake_k: CNET's AI-powered headlines are just the start — Red Ventures is building an empire on cheap, searchable content, and it's using AI writers on other sites too new from @MiaRSato and @jjvincent https://www.theverge.com/...Katyanna Quach / The Register: Publisher breaks news by using bots to write inaccurate stories
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