A tech news site let AI write a story. It was a disasterA few hours after James Whitbrook clocked into work at Gizmodo on Wednesday, he received a note from his editor in chief: Within 12 hours, the company would roll out articles written by artificial intelligence.
Whitbrook – a deputy editor at Gizmodo who writes and edits articles about science fiction – quickly read the story, which he said he had not asked for or seen before it was published.
He catalogued 18 “concerns, corrections and comments” about the story in an email to Gizmodo’s editor in chief, Dan Ackerman, noting the bot put the TV series Star Wars: The Clone Wars in the wrong order, omitted any mention of television shows such as Star Wars: Andor and the 2008 film also entitled Star Wars: The Clone Wars, inaccurately formatted movie titles and the story’s headline, had repetitive descriptions, and contained no “explicit disclaimer” that it was written by AI except for the “Gizmodo Bot” byline.