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AI-generated articles prompt Wikipedia to downgrade CNET’s reliability rating (arstechnica.com)

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[-] [email protected] 15 points 6 months ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:

Wikipedia has downgraded tech website CNET's reliability rating following extensive discussions among its editors regarding the impact of AI-generated content on the site's trustworthiness, as noted in a detailed report from Futurism.

The decision reflects concerns over the reliability of articles found on the tech news outlet after it began publishing AI-generated stories in 2022.

Shortly after the CNET news broke in January 2023, Wikipedia editors began a discussion thread on the Reliable Sources project page about the publication.

"CNET, usually regarded as an ordinary tech RS [reliable source], has started experimentally running AI-generated articles, which are riddled with errors," wrote a Wikipedia editor named David Gerard.

Futurism reports that the issue with CNET's AI-generated content also sparked a broader debate within the Wikipedia community about the reliability of sources owned by Red Ventures, such as Bankrate and CreditCards.com.

In response to the downgrade and the controversies surrounding AI-generated content, CNET issued a statement that claims that the site maintains high editorial standards.

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[-] [email protected] 22 points 6 months ago

Read the room, bot

[-] [email protected] 21 points 6 months ago

Yer unreliable! Ya hear that, m8?

[-] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

Fack yoo

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