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One of the most highly-trafficked financial news websites in the world is creating AI-generated stories that bear an uncanny resemblance to stories published just hours earlier by other competitors:
Investing.com, a Tel Aviv-based site owned by Joffre Capital, is a financial news and information hub that provides a mix of markets data and investing tips and trends. But increasingly, the site has been relying on AI to create its stories, which often appear to be thinly-veiled copies of human-written stories written elsewhere.
[...] Pere Monguió, the head of content at FXStreet, told Semafor in an email that he and his team noticed several months ago that Investing was publishing stories similar to their site's articles. FXStreet's 60-person team monitors and quickly analyzes developments in global currencies. By pumping out AI articles, Investing was eroding FXStreet's edge, Monguió said.
"Using AI to rewrite exclusive content from competitors is a threat to journalism and original content creation," he said.
[...] "This isn't truly a new thing," Lawrence Greenberg, senior vice president and chief legal officer at The Motley Fool, said in an email. "We have seen, and acted against, people plagiarizing our content from time to time, and if you're right about what's going on, AI has achieved a level of human intelligence that copies good content and makes it mediocre."
See also: Sports Illustrated Published Articles by Fake, AI-Generated Writers
(Score: 5, Insightful) by theluggage on Wednesday December 13 2023, @12:07PM (3 children)
We all know Sturgeon's Revelation that 90% of everything is crud. However, thanks to Artificial Incontinence we should have that up to 99.9% by 2025.
Everybody worries about everything from AI taking away everybody's job to re-enacting the plot of Terminator, but the clear and present danger seems to be Large Language Models launching a denial-of-service attack on reason by automatically generating a million nonsense articles from Google's top 100 searches. Not something that the human race ever needed any help with, but human fingers can only type so many words of plausible nonsense a minute. LLMs are to bullshit what email was to the 409 scam.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by Thexalon on Wednesday December 13 2023, @12:45PM
What will almost definitely make things worse: AI generated BS + barely-peer-reviewed open access journals = the appearance of legitimate academic support for literally any position at all. And it's pretty much guaranteed that most people won't notice the difference between a citation of an article published in, say, the International Journal of Advanced Computer Technology versus an article published in the Journal of the ACM. Even if the article in question is this [stanford.edu].
"Think of how stupid the average person is. Then realize half of 'em are stupider than that." - George Carlin
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 13 2023, @01:04PM (1 child)
> ... the 409 scam.
I think you meant the 419 scam?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advance-fee_scam [wikipedia.org]
(Score: 5, Touché) by theluggage on Wednesday December 13 2023, @02:04PM
Shush - you're spoiling the clever trap I set to catch any AI that dares to recycle my post!