A new byline showed up Wednesday on the site of io9, the genre-entertainment section of Gizmodo tech website: “Gizmodo Bot.” And the site’s editorial staff appears to have not had…
In this case the mistakes were obvious. It’s more frightening to know that as the tech advances the errors will be more subtle, and for important subjects.
Very much so. It also highlights a shift in how writing works now that I’m concerned about: when humans are doing it, generally someone will copyedit or beta read (admittedly, not on clickbait sites). With AI? Yolo, just publish it as-is, since not paying humans was the whole point. We’re gonna see more and more of that.
So it’s working exactly like the rest of Gawker’s “writers.”
If I were going to post something wrong on the Internet, the last thing I would want it to be about is Star Wars. The comment section must be insane.