AI News Curation Editors: Not Ready For Prime Time?
It appears we may not be ready to turn over important news curation duties to AI-driven editors , according to an opinion piece in Analytics India.
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Case in point: Trusting AI to get the story right resulted in a major gaffe at AI-driven MSN News last week, observes Analytics India writer Ram Sugar.
The problem: MSN’s AI ran the wrong photo along with a piece on racism, which it curated from another online news source.
That triggered charges from the misidentified source — Jade Thirwall — that the AI software itself was plagued by racist programming. Observes Sugar: “Having a completely automated information curator cannot be justified — unless some organization wants to hide behind the veil of AI by shifting the blame to a non-human entity.”
In other AI-generated writing news:
*Microsoft MSN’s Move to AI Editing: A Glimpse at the Future?: Microsoft’s decision to replace approximately 50 freelance editors with AI editors July 1 indicates more writing jobs will most likely be lost to AI, according to David Roe.
Roe is a writer for CMS Wire.
“Until now, it has been argued that the main jobs that will lose out to AI are unskilled, manual labor,” Roe observes. “However, the MSN decision indicates that this is not the case.”
Specifically, writers can expect to see jobs like proofreading disappear as AI continues to expand into journalism, copywriting, technical writing and similar genres of pro writing, according to Roe.
“Proofreaders are likely to be replaced by AI — despite the skill needed to be a great editor,” Roe observes. “An editor needs to have a good command of the English language. “But many Web sites and companies are already using grammar check software like Hemingway App and Grammarly.
“There are plenty of technologies that make it easy to self-check your writing.”
*Partnering With AI to Write Sci-Fi: Stephen Marche, a writer with MIT Technology, says he has played with AI to write sci-fi – with impressive results.
“The resulting story—“Twinkle Twinkle,” published in Wired— not only looked and felt like a science fiction story,” Marche observes. “It also, to my surprise, contained an original narrative idea.”
Marche’s take: “Whether we want it or not, the machines are coming. The question is: how literature will respond.”
*OpenAI Releases Commercialized AI Text Generator: OpenAI is offering a commercialized version of the latest version of its AI text generator – GPT-3 – according to a story in Wired.
The cloud-based service works by taking an inputted sentence and then adding additional sentences it believes should immediately follow — based on its best, AI-aided guess.
While pre-commercial versions of the auto text generator were often used to fabricate all sorts of far-fetched musings — which sometimes resulted in nonsense text —...
