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CNET's AI Journalist Appears to Have Committed Extensive Plagiarism
The prominent tech news site CNET's attempt to pass off AI-written work keeps getting worse. First, the site was caught quietly publishing the machine learning-generated stories in the first place....
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Rival Slams CNET: "We Will Never Have an Article Written by a Machine"
No Pulled Punches As the fallout from tech news stalwart CNET's disastrous experiment with AI-generated SEO-bait articles — which, as we recently reported, weren't just shrouded in secrecy and chock...
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News Site Admits AI Journalist Plagiarized and Made Stuff Up, Announces Plans...
This morning, CNET editor-in-chief Connie Guglielmo broke the site's lengthy silence on its decision to publish dozens of AI-generated articles about personal finance topics on its site. It appears to...
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CNET's Article-Writing AI Is Already Publishing Very Dumb Errors
Last week, we reported that the prominent technology news site CNET had been quietly publishing articles generated by an unspecified "AI engine." The news sparked outrage. Critics pointed out that the...
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I Work for CNET’s Parent Company. Its AI-Generated Articles Disgust Me.
The AI is here, and it’s pumping out articles — inaccurate, messily copied, poorly disclosed ones — at a rate that I probably couldn’t achieve even if I skipped sleep, gave up eating, abdicated all...
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CNET Sister Site Restarts AI Articles, Immediately Publishes Idiotic Error
By now, you might've heard about stalwart tech publisher CNET and its parent company Red Ventures, which surreptitiously published AI-written articles for months without telling readers — before they...
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Leaked Messages Show How CNET's Parent Company Really Sees AI-Generated Content
When prominent tech news site CNET was caught last month using AI to quietly publish dozens of articles, it produced widespread alarm. News readers learned in real time that the explosive new...
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Red Ventures Knew Its AI Lied and Plagiarized, Deployed It at CNET Anyway
We already knew that the tech news site CNET had been publishing AI-generated articles in near secrecy. Things got even more embarrassing for the site when Futurism discovered that the bot's articles...
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Whatever You Think of BuzzFeed's AI Quizzes, They're Way Less Horrible Than...
As if the journalism industry wasn't already troubled enough, it's been wracked with turmoil in recent weeks as media outlets have started using artificial intelligence to beef up their content...
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"AI Will Never Replace Journalism," Says Magazine CEO Replacing Journalists...
Pot/Kettle The parent company of Sports Illustrated has announced that its magazines will begin using artificial intelligence to churn out garbage content in the absolute most oxymoronic fashion. In a...
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CNET Was Treating Staff Like Robots Long Before Publishing AI-Generated Articles
When I returned to work from short-term disability leave, my editor at the CNET Money team asked if I had any new ideas. I did. It was January 2022, and the US Department of Labor had just published...
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CNET's Owner Preparing to Restart Publishing AI-Generated Content
Barely a month after placing an indefinite pause on publishing AI-generated content, CNET owner Red Ventures appears poised to spin the AI content machine back up once again. Leaked audio obtained by...
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CNET Hits Staff With Layoffs After Disastrous Pivot to AI Journalism
After using artificial intelligence to churn out dozens of articles that turned out to be rife with errors and plagiarism, CNET owner Red Ventures is hitting its remaining human staff with a fresh...
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CNET Says It's a Total Coincidence It's Laying Off Humans After Publishing...
Coinkydink Red Ventures has wasted no time in hitting its tech news site CNET with another round of brutal layoffs, following the revelation that it had been very quietly publishing AI-generated...
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CNET's Post-AI Layoffs Apparently Gutted 50 Percent of Its News and Video Staff
The full scope of CNET's layoffs after its disastrous foray into AI-powered journalism is coming further into focus — and frankly, things don't look too good. According to internal correspondence...
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CNET Staff Unionize, Saying AI Use "Threatens Our Jobs and Reputations"
CNET staffers are unionizing, and they're naming their employer's use of AI as a key reason why — a timely reminder that even as generative AI tech raises billions in funding and threatens to upend...
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Bankrate Posts AI-Generated Article, Deletes It When We Point Out It's Full...
The finance site Bankrate has started publishing AI-generated articles again, and it insists that this time they've been meticulously fact-checked by a human journalist before being published. "This...
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Gizmodo and Kotaku Staff Furious After Owner Announces Move to AI Content
The steady march of AI in journalism continues — though the outcome, both for the health of the information ecosystem and the financial wellbeing of publishers that embrace it, remains as hazy as ever....
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CNET’s Parent Company Preparing to Kickstart the AI Content Engine
CNET owner Red Ventures is preparing to kickstart its AI engine in a major way. In an all-hands meeting on Thursday, Red Ventures CEO Ric Elias laid out an expansive plan for the publisher's AI-driven...
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CNET’s Publisher Having Trouble Selling It Due to AI Scandal
CNET parent company Red Ventures has been looking to sell off the stalwart technology site, according to a new report from Axios. But unfortunately for Red Ventures, it's had a tough time finding a...
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