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


  • AI
  • Monday, 05 Jun 2023

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.

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