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AI journalism is getting harder to tell from the old-fashioned, human-generated kind | Ian Tucker

AI journalism is getting harder to tell from the old-fashioned, human-generated kind | Ian Tucker

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https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/apr/30/ai-journalism-is-getting-harder-to-tell-from-the-old-fashioned-human-generated-kind

I rumbled a chatbot ruse – but as the tech improves, and news outlets begin to adopt it, how easy will it be to spot it next time?

A couple of weeks ago I tweeted a call-out for freelance journalists to pitch me feature ideas for the science and sechnology section of the Observer’s New Review. Unsurprisingly, given headlines, fears and interest in LLM (large language model) chatbots such as ChatGPT, many of the suggestions that flooded in focused on artificial intelligence – including a pitch about how it is being employed to predict deforestation in the Amazon.