Kotaku Staff Furious After Owner Announces Move to AI Content
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.
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.
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.
Bahahaha, I just put that shit into ChatGPT and this is what I got:
https://chat.openai.com/share/20f322f8-76bc-4974-bb62-9b089fdd5297
That's hilarious, and about on par with most of the writing on so-called journalism sites these days. Glorious!
@HelldiverM That reads exactly like a typical dumb shit Kotaku article. No wonder, because it was trained from human data. I don't know what's more shocking, that our News outlets by human is so bad we think a robot wrote it, or if the AI is that good that we think a human wrote it. Both perspectives are frightening.
That’s so much fluff.
Fun to read but honestly felt like watching an Ancient Aliens episodes.
Holy shit it's spot on for the type of outrage baiting I expected. I'm really impressed
at least it's nonsense.
Here is mine lol
https://chat.openai.com/share/0d543566-427a-4b8b-bc2b-ef32ba4b8a45
This sounds exactly like something Kotaku would write:
One of the key criticisms leveled at Tetris is the lack of diversity in its visual representation. The game predominantly features blocks of different shapes and colors, but the absence of any explicitly diverse or racially inclusive elements raises questions. In a world that is culturally diverse, the omission of representation within the game can be seen as a missed opportunity to promote inclusivity.
Lmao it's awesome, I haven't read Kotaku in ages, so I don't know if it sounds Kotaku-y enough, but holy damn I can totally imagine a human nutjob writing that shit
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
To be fair, Kotaku does sometimes make shit up. Like the Persona 5-Smash crossover lyrics being ableist thing. And they tried to double down on it for awhile if I recall right.
And yes, ChatGPT makes shit up all the time. More often then Kotaku.
I know in a post gamergate world, we need to be diligent for things like dog-whistles. And hating on Kotaku is arguably in dog-whistle territory. I guess in my opinion Kotaku is so bad, that we should be able to safely mock the crap out of them. I'm even more happy to mock any chuds that want to keep non cis-white-males out of games. They just weren't relevant for this occasion.
Hate on Kotaku all you want but they don't make shit up as often as AI does
Oh they do. Take the whole kerfuffle around Kingdom Come.
I have found that one of the more effective ways to use ChatGPT for writing is to not just tell it "write me an article about..." But to give it a list of all the facts and basic arguments you want to include in the article and then tell it to use those. Takes more work to gather those bits of information ahead of time, but not a lot more work - you could basically do a bunch of Googling and copy and paste bits and pieces of what you find to use as your starting data.
That's an amazing prompt. 😂
@Chozo Right? There is no need of this site anymore since I've got fingers and can use CGPT myself.
Not much was lost. Both Gizmodo and Kotaku content have already been indistinguishable from poorly generated AI content for ages now.
I agree, it's been pretty bad for a few years now at least.
Shilling corpo propaganda made most "journalism" feel like it was AI generated corporate PR
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.
And the people who benefited from having their loans forgiven by the taxpayers just convinced the Supreme Court that your loans don't count and that you should be on the hook for them!
Somebody's going to need to tell the AIs what to write about and evaluate their output.
Everyone with enough money to make corporate decisions is always the worst person at making corporate decisions
The Peter principle in action.
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.
Came here to say exactly this. I don’t like Kotaku, and think that the AI is probably doing a better job. But this does not bode well for other publications.
Ever since I saw an AI play megaman I would rather have AI review videogames because they will eventually learn how to play competently.
Streamlining garbage-in-garbage-out for the mainstream is apparently worth trillions.
Why would anyone bother visiting Kotaku if they could just ask an AI to make shit up directly? Management just not thinking beyond the immediate present.
I'm inclined to care but this is Kotaku we're talking about
HAHAHAHAHAHHA
It couldn't have happened to a nicer platform
These companies planning to become unnecessary middlemen between you and ChatGPT seem to be kind of short sighted. If you're not providing your own (often stupid) insight then what do you really provide beyond writing prompts and saving the result on your site.
I think more and more "news" websites will do more and more if this. If a sites primary driver is not quality or accurate reporting or blogging but clicks for traffic you can expect more to follow suit.
we’ve replaced all of our writers with large language models acting as writing assistants. Let’s see if anyone notices…
