Kotaku Staff Furious After Owner Announces Move to AI Content

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G/O Media, an online media company that owns Gizmodo and Kotaku has announced that it will begin a "modest test" of AI content on its sites.

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The fact that I can open up ChatGPT right now and say "Write a Kotaku article about why Tetris is racist" and get a 100% believable result out of it should be a sign that they've been replaceable for a while now.

Believable as in imitates the writing style, sure, but what's the point if it's factually incorrect?

From the article:

The company joins a growing number of media entities experimenting with the technology [...] These trials have already led to a flood of error-laden, plagiarized, and poorly written content due to badly implemented — and, some would argue, inherently unsuited AI models — that still have a strong tendency to make up facts.

Hate on Kotaku all you want but they don't make shit up as often as AI does

Bahahaha, I just put that shit into ChatGPT and this is what I got:

https://chat.openai.com/share/20f322f8-76bc-4974-bb62-9b089fdd5297

WTF that is a whole load of baloney, it's hilarious. Also a good reminder for us who lean left to remember to be critical when discussing such things too.

Good thing I spent five years in college sharpening my writing skills, only to be obsoleted by an uppity toaster. That'll make paying my student loans so much easier.

Well at least you paid for boomers to have mcmansions and 401ks

Thank you for your service!

boomer thanking a younger person for anything

Found the fake boomer /hj

Whould you thank any one for anything, if earned it all yourself? They literally pulled them selves up by the bootstraps !

I dislike Kotaku, but I still think that cheering this decision on is a bad thing, because if this works then more and more companies with better journalism will probably be replaced.

Not much was lost. Both Gizmodo and Kotaku content have already been indistinguishable from poorly generated AI content for ages now.

Shilling corpo propaganda made most "journalism" feel like it was AI generated corporate PR

Ironically nothing seems to rile up some gamers more than when game journalists try to be more than a corporate PR relay. God forbid anyone talks about labor issues, social issues, or worse, actually publishes a critique of a popular triple-A game.

That's because Gamers are morons.

Who is down voting this comment?

Labour issue in game development got ur panties all bunched up?!

I guess some really ain't got to work for money ehh?

Who is down voting this comment?

chatterbox and comedy. You can see them in the activity tab of the post.

Ahh... Didn't even know about that feature. Ty for sharing!

@chatterbox and @comedy

lol, @comedy downvoted me too in frustration. He forgot that he isn't on reddit anymore.

I am still hoping to hear what theor issue here is tbh..

Otherwise it feels like basic sinping for some legal persons

So weird and obsessive to not only care about who might disagree with your comment, but to then seek to notify them demanding an explanation. Like I have to justify why I disagree or dont find any particular comment useful?

I diagreed because I am a gamer and I DO care about labor conditions in the industry. While I don't work in it, I have many friends that do and they identify as gamers and do care. I dont like making gamers a monolith, nor do I agree with the assertion that the reason they were disliked was due to them cocering labor issues. Thats why I downvoted the comment. I dont expect you or the others to agree with me, obviously, but the idea that you'd try to get people to justify it is fucking weird.

Everyone with enough money to make corporate decisions is always the worst person at making corporate decisions