Content Farms Are Already Using AI Chatbots to Plagiarize News
Society hasn’t completely crumbled to the ground yet as some AI doomers have may have predicted, but other less dramatic harms predicted by some of the AI bill signatories have. In particular, the current age of generative AI chatbots has already been used to churn out scores of low-quality news posts, some containing potentially harmful misinformation.
Researchers at NewsGuard earlier this year identified 37 websites that appeared to use AI to “scramble and rewrite” stories from mainstream publications and republish them for ad revenue. The content farms publishing the stories took genuine news articles written by publications like The New York Times and CNN and scrambled them to appear as if they were unique. Some of the websites appeared to be automated, essentially operating with no human involvement.
