CNET used AI to write articles. It was a journalistic disaster. Washington Post

[isaacfrond]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/media/2023/01/17/cnet-ai-articles-journalism-corrections/

[isaacfrond]

> Social-media trolls have long taunted newly laid-off reporters with the epithet “Learn to code.”

Coders themselves aren't entirely immune to the AI overlords themselves, methinks.

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I do hope in the future we just tell everyone to learn to critically reason.

[isaacfrond]

https://archive.is/dNpfL

[seren]

But was it a failure financially ?

I can see effects on the long term, but if on the short term, more (incorrect) articles produced cheaply means more ad revenue, we are going to see more and more ChatGPT written articles.