Opinion: AI chatbots have been used to create hundreds of news websites

NewsGuard has identified more than 125 websites, ranging from news to lifestyle reporting and published in 10 languages, with substantial content written by AI tools. They include a health information portal that has published more than 50 AI-generated articles offering medical advice, some imprecise or even bogus, including on subjects such as end-stage bipolar disorder. — Image by rawpixel.com on Freepik

Consider Hollywood’s evolving villains over the years: Nazis, Russians, South African white nationalists, Middle Eastern terrorists, South American drug lords, dinosaurs, aliens, Wall Street cutthroats, and, now, Tim Robbins.

It’s Robbins as creepy “Bernard,” a dour IT director in Silo, an AppleTV+ sci-fi series about thousands of people living underground for reasons they do not understand — and that Bernard is loath to explain.