An AI-Powered News Site Scooped Human Journalists. Now What?

Most of us by now have become more or less desensitized to a steady drip of AI slop: AI-generated influencers, musicians racking up millions of streams, LinkedIn posts—a sizable chunk of online content is now being churned out by bots, without any kind of.

That obviously raises big questions around the future of journalism at a time when the industry is already struggling to contend with the rise of AI chatbots and their siphoning of traffic from traditional online search, which has long served as the backbone of.

What Happened

As you could probably guess, the tone of the AI-generated article (which like most of the stories published on the site includes Merket’s name in the byline) is rather flat and mechanical compared with those penned by human authors. It reads like.

• Trump, meanwhile, is aiming to slash the federal government’s cybersecurity defense budget by more than $700 million.

• Get ready to hear the phrase "circular dealmaking" a lot more, again.

• If they don’t, the streaming platform says it has a plan to catch them.

Key Details

What does seem certain, however, is that AI-driven newsrooms will proliferate as models themselves get better at writing, aggregating information, and minimizing hallucination. Others will probably prefer to pay for news from outlets that make it a point to not include AI.

• The human creators behind AI-generated profiles are encouraged to voluntarily identify themselves.

• This is meant to make content generated by AI easier to detect.

• Gemini's user growth seems to be accelerating while reports claim competitor ChatGPT is slowing down.

Why It Matters

For the rest of us, it will only make home-cooked meals taste that much better.

• For many people, the speed of informational fast food will be too good to pass up.

What Reports Say

Coverage of the story so far points to:

• Continued reporting by Gizmodo as more details emerge