Quartz, the International Business News Outlet, was quietly aggregating relationships from other stores, including Techcrunch, in order to publish articles generated by the AI under the “Newsroom Intelligence Quartz” line.
Quartz started publishing simple reports on the profits generated since the months ago, but starting last week, the outlet has moved to short articles. One of the 18 articles generated by the AI published from Monday afternoon, entitled “The preliminary results of South Korean actions on Jeju Air Crash Investigation”, aggregated reports made by real journalists at the CNN, MSN and the Associated Press on Msn.com.
Each of the items generated by the Outlet AS is about 400 words and does not include complete quotes from sources. Rather than attributing information into the body of the text, as the journalists of meat and blood do, the Ai writer of Ai Di Quartz only cites his sources in the upper part of his pieces.
A spokesperson for the corporate parent g/o media confirmed to Techcrunch the existence of a “purely experimental” artificial intelligence editorial staff, without commenting on as artificial intelligence models or tools used by the publication to write news articles generated by the AI .
It is not clear how the editorial staff AI of Quartz chooses which stories to cover. The spokesperson stated that the goal is to free the Quartz editorial staff to “work on longer and deepened articles” and that the editorial staff examines every story generated by the AI before it is published.
The quality control seems lacking, however, in an article that the editorial staff AI of Quartz tried from Techcrunch last week.
The article in question is a piece that I wrote in detail how you can eliminate Facebook, Instagram and Threads accounts. For each platform, it provides detailed instructions on how to download and save your data before deleting them and, ultimately, your accounts.
This was a strange article to transform into a summary generated by 300 words. The title of the quartz article-“How to eliminate your Facebook, Instagram and Threads right now”-he explains a piece of education similar to mine. But his account elimination instructions are vague:
To permanently eliminate a Facebook account, users must go to the “Settings and privacy” section and select “Property and account control”. It is important to note that once an account is eliminated, it cannot be recovered. For Instagram, users use the account center or settings to download their data before deleting their profiles. The elimination of thread profiles requires the removal of the connected Instagram account, since the two are interconnected.
I could probably spend the whole day criticizing the “height” of the editorial articles AI of Quartz. I mean, just look at this title: “Workless statements increase slightly while continuous statements have established a record”. Apart from the word, the clause is a contradiction. Are the work without work, only “slightly”, but some other “continuous statements” are giving a record? TSK, TSK. My publisher would never have allowed me to publish something so sloppy.
G/O media, which is owned by the private equity company Great Hill Partners, was put in flames in July 2023 for having published content generated by the filled with errors without inputs of the publishers or writers of g/o. At the time, the company’s editorial director, Merrill Brown, defended the practice, also as outlet journalists as Gizmodo opposed.
The publication of content generated by the AI has a way for publishers such as quartz to access low cost-cost work does not command benefits and a salary, after all, potentially maximize profits. The spokesman for the g/o said that the response to the reader and the commitment with his artificial intelligence stories have far “overcome our expectations at this point”.
The spokesman also denied the voices on cash troubles, stating that society is “very well financed” with a “good amount of circulating capital on which to draw if necessary”. They also noticed that the previous reductions in the staff were due to the sale of some sites in 2024, but that quartz is about to take more editorials.
G/o is not the first media organization that is delighted with content generated by the AI. Cnet and Gannett have published their stories and art generated by the Fattyly inaccurate e-in the case of Sports Illustrated-Sotto the manufactured lines.
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