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Sports Illustrated Published Articles by Fake, AI-Generated Writers (futurism.com)
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Sports Illustrated was publishing articles under seemingly fake bylines. We asked their owner about it — and they deleted everything.

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[–] 12 points 2 years ago (8 children)

AI can be such a great tool, but they just use it for this crap... We need regulation

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (2 children)

    I don't understand what the purpose of regulation would be.

    If a company writes bad articles using AI, they will lose business and the problem will be self correcting.

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  • [–] [S] 7 points 2 years ago

    In this case, the magazine created fake journalists with fake bios and used them.in the bylines. I would think that's a kind of fraud and definitely hurts the magazine's trustworthiness. The article goes into other publications that have also used fake journalists with their bylines in AI produced articles. I think if they were more transparent- say, labeling an article "AI created content" - it wouldn't be as much of an issue.

    This also doesn't address errors in the AI produced articles (which could be solved by having a real life fair checker or editor).

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