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G/O Media, a major online media company that runs publications including Gizmodo, Kotaku, Quartz, Jezebel, and Deadspin, has announced that it will begin a “modest test” of AI content on its sites.
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The trial will include “producing just a handful of stories for most of our sites that are basically built around lists and data,” Brown wrote. “These features aren’t replacing work currently being done by writers and editors, and we hope that over time if we get these forms of content right and produced at scale, AI will, via search and promotion, help us grow our audience.”
What all these trend chasing CEOs fail to grasp about ChatGPT is that the Neural Network is trained to return what looks like like a human written answer, but it is NOT, IN ANY CASE, GOING TO RETURN INFORMATION. If you ask ChatGPT to write an essay with sources, ChatGPT is going to write a somewhat coherent essay with what looks like sources, but it’s going to be a crapshot if the sources are even real, because you asked for an essay with sources, not an essay USING any given source. Anyways, I’m going to heat some popcorn and wait for the inevitable fake articles and the associated debacle.
ChatGPT is an engineering marvel in that it has understood the semantics of language. However, it has absolutely no idea what it is talking about beyond generating the next token in a string of what sounds like natural language. I wish more people would understand this nuance.
It’s actually perfect for the current attention-span deficit generation
They’re a product of the world that was made for them. Not like they had any choice in it.
Very true. I almost sounded like a boomer
It’s frightening how many people fail to realize this. I’ve had to explain to people that I consider to be reasonably intelligent that ChatGPT is not, in fact, a “truly sentient AI.” If you ask it to explain how refrigerators work, it probably can, but it also has literally no fucking clue what a refrigerator is or what any of the words in the sentences it generates truly “mean” in the same sense that you understand and comprehend language.
Hearing about that lawyer who thought ChatGPT magically had access to unknown cases and didn’t even bother to read it to see if it made sense is simultaneously hilarious and incredibly cringe
If you’ve seen articles most news agencies put out besides a select, high-quality few, I doubt anyone will be able to tell the difference. They’re all shit. They’re probably just switching from mechanical turk to this.
Exactly. Anyone can see this for themselves if they ask it a few questions about a subject they’re an expert on.
People won’t get this through their brains for some reason. Even the (slightly more) tech inclined here use chatGPT to answer askLemmy posts as if the ai knew anything
People use chatgpt as a search engine, did you know that? Blows my mind. The CEOs might not care about all the make up stuff for a good while, because a lot of people won’t.
It can be a very good tool for searching. One of my most common questions to GPT-4 are “<insert long rambly description of some vague idea I’ve heard of> Does this have a name?” and then it’ll tell me and I can search for that in a real search engine