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Can Journalism Resist A Chatbot-Fueled Race To The Bottom?

In November 2022, tech media website CNET began publishing pieces generated entirely by artificial intelligence tools. By January, when Futurism reported on it, CNET had already published more than 70 articles under the “CNET Money Staff” byline. The move by CNET and errors discovered in 41 of those stories prompted Wired’s global editorial director Gideon Lichfield to put out policies on how his magazine will and will not use AI tools.

This article was written by Sara Gourdarzi and originally published by The Bulletin For The Atomic Scientists.

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