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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.”
Writing “listicles” is dead-brain work anyway, no creativity or actual research beyond the list itself needed.
5 things your doctor didn’t tell you at your last appointment, number 4 will shock you.
Don’t leave us hanging, buddy, what’s number 4?! 😳
What? No way
If that shocked you then you won’t believe what number 3 is…
I could genuinely see GPT-4 writing this article right now and it would somehow be even less interesting and more braindead than you could imagine. You have to be very careful with writing prompts for any sort of advice because it has read way too many self-help trash articles and it easily falls into that domain.
I would have said: Your doctor didn’t tell you that you should get a pet turtle.
ChatGPT says:
Thanks for that. I can’t wait for a massive cascade of equally useless text to flood the Internet.