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A Gizmodo story on Star Wars, generated by artificial intelligence, was riddled with errors. The irony that the problem happened at a tech publication was undeniable.
Illustration: Alex Castro / The Verge G/O Media, who owns popular tech site Gizmodo along with a slew of other outlets, began publishing AI-generated articles last week, despite strong objections from many of the members of its staff, according to The Washington Post. The articles are all credited to various bots — Gizmodo Bot, for example — with no other indication that the article was created using an AI chatbot. Unsurprisingly, the stories needed a lot of work. The internal reaction to Gizmodo's first chatbot-created story — a chronological list of Star Wars movies that wasn'...
Gizmodo's io9 released an article written by "Gizmodo Bot" foisted on the site's editorial team with little notice, deputy editor James Whitbrook says.