Red Ventures AI automated 'journalism'
US-based technology news website CNET was discovered by Futurism's The Byte to be using 'automation technology' to publish a series of financial explainer articles, prompting critics to voice concerns about the future of journalism and journalistic jobs. 75 articles had been published since the 'CNET Money' programme started early November 2022, with topics ranging from ' What is Compound Interest? ' to ' How to cancel you home equity loan '. E ach article was by-lined 'CNET Money Staff'. During this period, most CNET employees had been kept in the dark about what tools the company was using or how it was using them and that, 'at times, they didn’t know if content published to CNET was AI-generated or written by their human colleagues.'
- Organisation involved
- Red Ventures/CNET
- Product, system or model
- Wordsmith; GPT-3
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