For reasons I won't get into here because it may constitute a little bit of a spoiler, the planet Earth in Starfield is a bit of a wasteland. But what if it was The Wasteland—that is, the post-nuclear hellscape of Bethesda's other big sci-fi-ish game series, Fallout? In an interview with The Washington Post, creative director Todd Howard said developers actually gave thought to the idea.
AI Chatbots Help Web Content Farms Copy Work From Top Publishers, Report Says
24.08.2023 - 16:30 / tech.hindustantimes.com / Ai
Dozens of websites are using AI chatbots to copy and repurpose articles from top publishers, according to a report from the news-rating group NewsGuard, offering a glimpse into how artificial intelligence tools risk undermining media companies and muddying the online news industry.
The 37 websites, which Bloomberg also reviewed, posted stories that contained identical text, photos and quotes to articles previously published by the New York Times, Reuters and CNN, according to the report. The examples NewsGuard found — a mix of online content farms publishing breaking news, lifestyle content and more, including sites with names such as DailyHeadliner.com and TalkGlitz.com — didn't credit or refer to the original authors or publications. News aggregators and content farms like these have long existed, seeking to generate traffic via search engines.
NewsGuard's report examined the use of AI to rewrite news to populate them. Tensions have escalated in recent months between the media industry and tech companies over concerns that a new crop of powerful AI tools trained on large swaths of online data — including copyrighted works — could churn out content that undercuts the livelihoods of authors, artists and journalists.
Authors have taken legal action against multiple AI companies, alleging copyright infringement, and concerns about the use of AI-generated content in TV and movies have become a major issue in the Hollywood actors' and writers' strikes. The New York Times is also said to be weighing legal action against ChatGPT-creator OpenAI Inc. over how its reporting is incorporated in training data, according to NPR.
The websites cited in the NewsGuard report didn't mention whether they made use of AI chatbots such as ChatGPT or Alphabet Inc.'s Google Bard, which can generate human-sounding text in response to a short written prompt. OpenAI specifically prohibits using its AI models for “plagiarism.”
Google prohibits the use of its generative AI for generating and distributing “content intended to misinform, misrepresent or mislead,” including by presenting AI-generated content as though it was made by a person, or as original, “in order to deceive.” OpenAI and Google didn't immediately respond to requests for comment from Bloomberg News.
While the websites don't spell out the role AI plays in populating stories, NewsGuard found articles on each site with the same telltale sign: an automated error message. NewsGuard said it spotted 17 articles posted in the past six months on GlobalVillageSpace.com, for example, that contained AI error messages in the body of the stories.
One post from the website used the same images and quotes included in a May piece in the New York Times about professional football
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