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CosmicCleric@lemmy.world 6 months agoIt isn’t about trying to “sneak in” AI content
But he says right in the article that he’s including AI content at the bottom of the article, to pad it out.
an article partially generated by AI, because after the buttons I am going to include a bunch of AI-generated copy from Google’s Gemini in order to pad this thing out.
My point is if he’s being honest and that’s the true reason, or just being sneaky and trying to slip in AI content into a human written article.
The thing is that the AI text is atrocious and vapid. It takes up a lot of space and says
"Laser printers are better in every way minus full color than inkjets, but are bigger and more expensive than inkjet printers."
The trick is that AI took 12 paragraphs and using a list incorrectly to do it instead of a sentence.
And the editor calls it out for that.
Not disputing that. My point, tongue-in-cheek, was if an editor says “hey I’m going to pad my article with a bad AI written portion”, then we lower our guard, and are more acceptive of including AI write ups in reviews.
It’s a gag, I promise. He’s talked about it on their podcast
catloaf@lemm.ee 6 months ago
Well if he announces it, I’m not sure how it’s being sneaky and slipping it in. But either way, what would that achieve?
CosmicCleric@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Us being more acceptive of, and not belligerent to, AI written articles.
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abhibeckert@lemmy.world 6 months ago
The Nilay (the “author” of this article) at The Verge is heavily Anti-AI especially when it comes to article content — he doesn’t allow anyone at the company to use it except when they are writing an article about AI and even then only to demonstrate a point - e.g. “here’s an example of AI generated content”. It was also his decision to stop AI’s from crawling any content on their website.
He used AI to pad the article because that’s what real spam articles do. It had nothing to do with acceptance.
CosmicCleric@lemmy.world 6 months ago
That was a stated goal, yes, but if that sort of tactic is done again and again, at some point, people will push back less against AI in reviews. Toad in a slow boiling pot sort of thing.
Again, tongue-in-cheek. Don’t overanalyze it, no need to defend, I’m just stating that was a possibility in the back of my mind, but not most likely what’s really going on.
Relax, everything is fine.
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