{"id":4688,"date":"2023-09-09T12:52:15","date_gmt":"2023-09-09T12:52:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/gizmodo-is-stripping-journalists-bylines-off-ai-translated-articles"},"modified":"2023-09-09T12:52:15","modified_gmt":"2023-09-09T12:52:15","slug":"gizmodo-is-stripping-journalists-bylines-off-ai-translated-articles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/gizmodo-is-stripping-journalists-bylines-off-ai-translated-articles\/","title":{"rendered":"Gizmodo Is Stripping Journalists\u2019 Bylines Off AI-Translated Articles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>G\/O Media&#8217;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 human employees at the blog&#8217;s Spanish-language site, Gizmodo Espa\u00f1ol, replacing those writers and their work \u2014 which included original reporting as well as translation work \u2014 with\u00a0an AI tool that translates and republishes Gizmodo&#8217;s English-language articles. Worse, upon closer inspection, the AI doesn&#8217;t seem to be particularly good at its new job. The bot&#8217;s translations, which appear to be free of any human editing process, are plagued with basic formatting errors, punctuation chaos, and even the occasional bit of HTML gore. But apparently, according to new reporting from Insider, the publisher&#8217;s AI-powered translation engine is only just getting started. &#8220;We are using an advanced translation service that provides context and intent while running the translations,&#8221; G\/O Media editorial director Merrill Brown told the company&#8217;s remaining employees in a Wednesday memo, which was shared with Insider by a G\/O representative. &#8220;This is the first step in our efforts to create local language editions of our journalism. In the coming months we&#8217;ll see more of our brands published in additional languages. We&#8217;re confident we&#8217;ll be bringing new and expanding audiences to our sites. &#8221; &#8220;There is a disclaimer explaining our approach and a link to the original article published beneath each translated story,&#8221; the note continued, adding that &#8220;the stories are running without bylines.&#8221; At first glance, the &#8220;no byline&#8221; note feels&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/gizmodo-stripping-bylines-ai-translated-articles\">Gizmodo Is Stripping Journalists\u2019 Bylines Off AI-Translated Articles<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>G\/O Media&#8217;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&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4422,62,300,4421,3426,2823,154,4423,12,295],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4688"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4688\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}