{"id":4736,"date":"2023-09-15T01:56:13","date_gmt":"2023-09-15T01:56:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/msn-deletes-plagiarized-incoherent-ai-articles-then-continues-cranking-out-more"},"modified":"2023-09-15T01:56:13","modified_gmt":"2023-09-15T01:56:13","slug":"msn-deletes-plagiarized-incoherent-ai-articles-then-continues-cranking-out-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/msn-deletes-plagiarized-incoherent-ai-articles-then-continues-cranking-out-more\/","title":{"rendered":"MSN Deletes Plagiarized, Incoherent AI Articles, Then Continues Cranking Out More"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier today, we published a story\u00a0about Microsoft&#8217;s\u00a0MSN news portal syndicating a garbled, seemingly AI-generated article about the recent, tragic death of former NBA player Brandon Hunter. The article, which was put together by a publication called Race Track, accused Hunter of being &#8220;useless at 42,&#8221; the likely result of an algorithm plagiarizing a TMZ Sports blog on the subject \u2014 while making an absolute mess of the source in the process. Now, while MSN has yet to respond to our initial request for comment, it appears to have taken down the offending article, alongside several other Race Track articles identified by Futurism. The deleted\u00a0articles include a recent piece about Kevin Porter Jr&#8217;s arrest for domestic violence and another particularly egregious piece\u00a0about &#8220;Corridor of Fame&#8221; football player &#8220;Pleasure Taylor,&#8221; likely a deeply confused reference to NFL Hall of Famer Joy Taylor. Despite MSN\u00a0taking down the articles, Race Track is still publishing a barrage of barely intelligible gibberish \u2014 and MSN keeps syndicating them. Just an hour before press time, the shadowy publication published a story titled &#8220;7 Causes to Strive Golfing as a Scholar,&#8221; which appears to be a ripoff of a 2022 article put together by Golf Monthly. Another unintentionally hilarious article about Formula 1 driver Sergio Perez claims he&#8217;s on team &#8220;Purple Bull,&#8221; rather than Red Bull. It&#8217;s not the first time Microsoft has been caught publishing lazy, AI-generated content through its news portal. For instance, MSN published and then deleted a similarly incoherent AI-generated travel guide for Ottawa,&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/msn-deletes-plagiarized-incoherent-ai-generated-articles-but-continues-publishing-more\">MSN Deletes Plagiarized, Incoherent AI Articles, Then Continues Cranking Out More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier today, we published a story\u00a0about Microsoft&#8217;s\u00a0MSN news portal syndicating a garbled, seemingly AI-generated article about the recent, tragic death of former NBA player Brandon Hunter. The article, which was&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":[62,300,4488,4485,3402,4489,158,4486,382,4487,12,1388,295],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4736"}],"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=4736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4736\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}