According to their website, 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
And I just unsubscribed from the Escapist and Destructoid RSS feeds. What a bummer. Thanks for the heads up!
One person to edit 250 AI articles per week? I’d be very surprised if they found them.
Eh, not as big of a deal as people think. You’ve probably already read lots of AI generated content without even realising it
I often do notice it, although I sometimes wonder if people might be this stupid in real life or not.
Fair, but how about the stuff you didn’t notice? You’d never know. College professors are being tricked everyday.
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…
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.)
So publishers making the switch will see the quality of their content drop, and with it the number of clicks / revenue they get. Enough to offset the salaries of all the writers they fired? Probably depends on the publication. For clickbait farms, probably not, but the higher quality the readers are used to the more the publishers stand to lose.
I hope the new EU legislation regarding AI also covers this type of things.
