Flutterby™! : Hoodline "local news" generated by LLM

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.

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