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.
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.
Bahahaha, I just put that shit into ChatGPT and this is what I got:
https://chat.openai.com/share/20f322f8-76bc-4974-bb62-9b089fdd5297
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.
@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.
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.
Here is mine lol
https://chat.openai.com/share/0d543566-427a-4b8b-bc2b-ef32ba4b8a45
It’s the training data. Every list the bot has ever seen has had the number 1 in it. All other numbers come up less than that.
The bot also has no memory of what it wrote before, and no clue what it will write next. It simply guesses what the next word will be based on what the last word was.
Another failure of these bots, they’re Pre-Trained. It’s the “p” in the name. So anything they generate will be based on the training data, with no changes to the algorithm based on interacting with users. You can “convince” the bot of anything and the second you close that browser window, the bot basically resets to factory defaults.
Probably botched Markdown formatting. Ordered Markdown lists will automatically be ordered properly, so starting each point with ‘1.’ doesn’t matter.
This sounds exactly like something Kotaku would write:
One of the key criticisms leveled at Tetris is the lack of diversity in its visual representation. The game predominantly features blocks of different shapes and colors, but the absence of any explicitly diverse or racially inclusive elements raises questions. In a world that is culturally diverse, the omission of representation within the game can be seen as a missed opportunity to promote inclusivity.
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
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.
I have found that one of the more effective ways to use ChatGPT for writing is to not just tell it “write me an article about…” But to give it a list of all the facts and basic arguments you want to include in the article and then tell it to use those. Takes more work to gather those bits of information ahead of time, but not a lot more work - you could basically do a bunch of Googling and copy and paste bits and pieces of what you find to use as your starting data.
@Chozo Right? There is no need of this site anymore since I’ve got fingers and can use CGPT myself.
Not much was lost. Both Gizmodo and Kotaku content have already been indistinguishable from poorly generated AI content for ages now.
Shilling corpo propaganda made most “journalism” feel like it was AI generated corporate PR
Ironically nothing seems to rile up some gamers more than when game journalists try to be more than a corporate PR relay. God forbid anyone talks about labor issues, social issues, or worse, actually publishes a critique of a popular triple-A game.
Who is down voting this comment?
Labour issue in game development got ur panties all bunched up?!
I guess some really ain’t got to work for money ehh?
Good thing I spent five years in college sharpening my writing skills, only to be obsoleted by an uppity toaster. That’ll make paying my student loans so much easier.
Well at least you paid for boomers to have mcmansions and 401ks
Thank you for your service!
Everyone with enough money to make corporate decisions is always the worst person at making corporate decisions
I dislike Kotaku, but I still think that cheering this decision on is a bad thing, because if this works then more and more companies with better journalism will probably be replaced.
