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Most readers want publishers to label AI-generated articles — but trust outlets less when they do (www.niemanlab.org)

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago

This was already true years ago after search engines became a thing. The main answers that come to mind for your question are:

providing novel information that wasn't online before.
providing information to you that you wouldn't have thought to ask for on your own.

Both of these remain valid and useful reasons for going to a web site even if that web site's content is AI generated.

There's also the matter that "AI generated" is a very broad term. Did someone merely turn an AI loose with a vague instruction to generate some pap to fill a page out with? Or did someone actually provide it with a subject and some information to write about and give the resulting article a read-through to ensure it was good? Did they write a rough draft and just have the AI do the polishing? There's lots of approaches here, some of them much better than others.