Artificial intelligence is being deployed to populate a growing number of low-quality “news” sites designed to generate advertising revenue from auto-generated clickbait. Some of them are very bad for AI authors to identify themselves in articles.
Newsguard, a news credibility rating agency, has found 49 such sites so far, offering content in seven languages: Chinese, Czech, English, French, Portuguese, Tagalog and Thai. It says it does.
NewsGuard says that “some people publish hundreds of articles a day” covering topics such as “politics, health, entertainment, finance and technology.”
According to NewsGuard, its purpose is to post content that attracts programmatically placed advertisements. What this means is that we found a number of news sites that mimic the original content farm business model, but use AI rather than human authors.
Not only do some stories present false narratives, but “nearly all content features bland language and repetitive phrases that are characteristic of artificial intelligence,” the organization said.
In many cases, NewsGuard says such sites do not disclose ownership or control.
With no human writers or editors involved, AIs sometimes expose their role in articles, whose headlines include the apology, “This prompt cannot be performed because it violates ethical and moral principles.” contained.
The organization said AI-driven sites “usually have harmless, generic names that suggest they are run by established publishers such as Biz Breaking News, News Live 79, Daily Business Post, Market News Reports, etc. I am.”
