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Over the past several months, many media outlets have made major pushes to automate their content output with AI generated articles. Some groups, such as Gamurs, had the audacity to put up a job listing for an AI Editor that would help facilitate the creation of 250 AI generated articles per week. That situation is made all the worse by the fact that Gamurs had just laid off roughly 40% of its workforce only a month before starting their search for an AI Editor.
Other outlets are already full of AI generated content. Some sites have cropped up that simply pull user posts from Reddit and create some absolutely abysmal articles based on what those Reddit posts talk about. Users noticed how often their content was appearing on these AI powered sites and decided to game the system. It began first with the World of Warcraft community coming together to fool an AI site into writing about a fictional feature named Glorbo.
A Destiny subreddit soon followed with their own fake discussion on Glorbo, a "secret boss." AI sites quickly picked up on that fake Destiny 2 Glorbo information and ran with it as if it were actual news.
Of course, there are also several other instances of AI generated content outside the gaming sphere trying to pass off incorrect information as fact.
All this said, it must be asked: What do you think about AI created content?
Are you all-in on AI? Do you like AI only when it's used to help or aid humans in some fashion? Or are you against AI in any and all capacity?
I regularly make use of smart home devices such as Google Home. I've also used Grammarly to help with spelling, grammar, and tone on a couple of articles that I've written here.
Outside of the April Fools thing, I have no intention of ever using or wanting to see fully AI created articles or content. They are typically trash in so many different ways.
Meanwhile, I see businesses looking forward to abusing the Hell out of this technology, and requiring actors/actresses to sign contracts that capture their likenesses and voices and paying one-time fees, instead of residuals if their likeness is used in the future post-retirement/mortem. Part of these strikes are because jobs are in danger, as businesses aim to reduce non-executive staff as revenue will not have to be allocated as much towards salaries.
And then there's Val Kilmer. He can barely speak (he did fine in Top Gun: Maverick though), and he gave his consent to develop an artificial voice. And he gets to lip-sync his roles, so he's not forced to retire from acting. In scenarios like that, I can appreciate the technology. But I hope there's a contract clause that prevents the technology from being used post-mortem, unless he or his family gave the studio their explicit consent and blessing.
I want to support AI, but damn we love to abuse the Hell out of it. And when will we reach the point where the abuse of AI is enough for technology to revolt on us, and we end up with The Matrix, Terminator, or both? Detroit: Become Human would probably be our best case future scenario... Probably.