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The Messenger, a news site that launched this year with a self-avowed mission to “champion balanced journalism in an era of bias, subjectivity, and misinformation” through “thorough, objective, non-partisan, and…
G/O Media-owned sports news site Deadspin’s AI is back up and running. The AI, dubbed “Deadspin Bot,” was first introduced back in June, and was one of several similar bots launched by…
Earlier today, we published a story about Microsoft’s MSN news portal syndicating a garbled, seemingly AI-generated article about the recent, tragic death of former NBA player Brandon Hunter. The article, which was…
When the iconic entertainment site The A.V. Club started publishing AI-generated articles earlier this summer at the directive of its owner, G/O Media, the backlash was intense. “The A.V. Club…
G/O Media’s vision of the future continues to come into focus. Unfortunately, as it stands, that vision seems increasingly human-free. To recap: last week, Gizmodo owner G/O Media fired the…
For young athletes, there are few moments as exciting as when they first see their name in the newspaper — preferably for a goal scored, or a save made, and…
Fumble That was fast. The Columbus Dispatch, a newspaper serving the Columbus, Ohio area, has suspended its AI efforts after its AI-powered sports writing bot was caught churning out horrible,…
Fool Me Once After a disastrous toe-dipping into AI-generated content, the owner of Gizmodo is doubling down and pledging to publish even more lazily bot-written articles. As Vox reports, G/O Media — which…
Outrageous Output With a brutal round of layoffs in March, a media outfit called Gamurs that owns several popular gaming sites including Dot Esports and Destructoid culled the jobs of at…
All Aboard Tech finance publication VentureBeat is using OpenAI’s Bing Chat to assist in editing and writing articles. And the folks in charge of the effort really don’t seem too…