A new byline showed up Wednesday on the site of io9, the genre-entertainment section of Gizmodo tech website: “Gizmodo Bot.” And the site’s editorial staff appears to have not had…

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    In this case the mistakes were obvious. It’s more frightening to know that as the tech advances the errors will be more subtle, and for important subjects.

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      Very much so. It also highlights a shift in how writing works now that I’m concerned about: when humans are doing it, generally someone will copyedit or beta read (admittedly, not on clickbait sites). With AI? Yolo, just publish it as-is, since not paying humans was the whole point. We’re gonna see more and more of that.

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    If I were going to post something wrong on the Internet, the last thing I would want it to be about is Star Wars. The comment section must be insane.

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      Fear not! Apparently, they cleverly avoided that by disabling comments for that story when they published it.