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A hot potato: News sites considering the use of AI-generated stories might want to heed the following warning: CNET, which quietly started publishing error-filled, plagiarized, AI-made content in 2022, has had its reliability rating downgraded on Wikipedia due to its ill-advised experiment.
There was plenty of furor last year over Futurism’s report that exposed CNET’s use of generative AI in some finance-related pieces. The articles started appearing in November 2022 with the byline
Wikipedia downgrades CNET’s reliability rating due to AI generated content
