Mysterious bylines appeared on a USA Today site. Did these writers exist?
washingtonpost.com
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> Meanwhile, AdVon Commerce is open about its use of AI. On its LinkedIn page, the company says it uses “AI solutions for E Commerce.”
> A Gannett spokesperson took issue with the Guild claim that the writers weren’t real people, pointing to the LinkedIn page of one AdVon Commerce writer whose name appeared on a Reviewed article. At the top of his account, that writer touted his experience in “polishing AI generative text.”
> This isn’t the first time Gannett has found itself answering embarrassing questions about AI practices. In August, Gannett attempted to automate high school sports coverage at some of its papers with AI-generated articles, only to pull the experiment after it produced error-ridden stories.
It's like we can't trust mass media anymore.
> A Gannett spokesperson took issue with the Guild claim that the writers weren’t real people, pointing to the LinkedIn page of one AdVon Commerce writer whose name appeared on a Reviewed article. At the top of his account, that writer touted his experience in “polishing AI generative text.”
Like... This is like pointing to a robot and saying it isn't a robot. Nobody is fooled. But... why even do it? Isn't it... idk, embarrassing? To just talk complete nonsense?
Agreed. Maybe there's a proper term for it but I call it the "hitman fallacy," where people reason that they can't be accused of murder because they aren't the party that pulled the trigger.
In a way, I can see their [tortured] logic-- they did in fact pay real money to a real person to write that article. It should follow that a real person did in fact write it, otherwise it's fraud.
Gannett shies away from calling it that because it's not fraud when the other party delivers what you asked for.
When we anticipated that a function would eventually be automated by artificial intelligence, we would designate as a task force AI.
Meanwhile, the AI would start out as “actually, interns” until we built up enough operational data to create a training suite. So in our case, AI often meant “Actually Interns”.
Sometimes we contracted a firm in India for mechanical Turk type tasks as well, so it also worked for that.
So write me prototype code to do something that I can describe in brief, but skeptical of doing things that are futzing with per-application use case cloud settings. I don't want to have to learn how you adjust foo or bar or baz on google cloud and aws and azure and ... - automating that is useful. I'd like to automate say java memory changes, but making the gc system do it without me needing to change flags is even better.
Most users thought we gave up on AI and went to real people when we transitioned from humans to AI lol.
We can’t trust Gannett, but it’s dangerous to dismiss all perceived “mass media” because of the decisions of one company.
If you’ve been paying attention to who owns the media you consume, you’ve likely already written off Gannett-tarnished outlets years ago.
Always seemed like the newspaper you see in basic chain hotels and no where else. Not surprised if they switched to a majority Ai articles.
But for things like stable diffusion or dalle we can’t, really.
Trying to more objectively analyse them, the things that give it away are
- Generic out of focus greenery background that is both a little too bland for professional headshots but also inconsistent between them.
- Odd details around the ears
- "pseudo earings" in the hair detail where the ears are covered.
- Finally, what the heck is going on with Breanna Miller's left shoulder?