Hoodline "local news" generated by LLM
2024-04-10 19:59:25.967316+02 by Dan Lyke 0 comments
Gazetteer: Hoodline using AI to generate news stories and journalist profiles
Following a Gazetteer SF inquiry, the neighborhood news site publicly confirmed its use of artificial intelligence to power an 'In-House Writing Collective'
Broke Ass Stuart: Hoodline caught using AI generated writers to make AI generated articles
To be fair, it seems like maybe they're feeding it things like police press releases and getting overly flowery summaries out, and unlike some other recent breaks, don't appear to be outright spreading lies.
Yet.
But this sure is a consequence of the Google created SEO environment.