SoylentNews is people
SoylentNews
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: 2) by VLM on Wednesday December 13 2023, @05:19PM
The whole thing reads like a company that digs ditches by hand with manual laborers bitching about that brand new "steam shovel" where one dude with a machine can outdig the entire other company.
Journalists told all the blue collar people they should learn2code, turnabout is fair play. Now its the journalists who need to learn2code.
The irony is the employment outlook looks a zillion times better for blue collar folks than white collar folks over the next couple decades.
Future generations are going to look really weirdly at Dilbert cartoons; the future for art history majors is not going to be working as Dilbert's boss, now their future looks like praying for UBI while part timing at Starbucks. If you can do all your homework for a college major using Bard and ChatGPT, you'd better change majors ASAP... It's like all the office workers from decades ago who are now replaced by REST APIs and some very small Python scripts.