A former Gizmodo writer changed his name to ‘Slackbot’ and stayed undetected for months
Hiding on Slack isn’t all that hard, apparently; you just have to pretend you’re a bot. That’s what IT Brew’s Tom McKay did when he left Gizmodo in 2022, and he went undetected by the site’s management for months.
Was für eine beschissene Geschichte. Das kleine Team hatte wohl ein treues Publikum und die automatischen Übersetzungen sind lachhaft. Und dann so den Job verlieren 🤬
"#KI hat meinen Job übernommen": #Gizmodo schließt eine komplette Redaktion
Seit mehr als zehn Jahren betreibt Gizmodo eine Seite für spanischsprachige Leser. Deren Redaktion wurde jetzt entlassen, es kommen automatische Übersetzungen.
“Starting this fall, an upcoming developer beta release of visionOS will include the App Store”
visionOS seems to be mostly on the iOS 17 cycle, even if the hardware is still months away (probably not as many as you think). That means the App Store is opening up soon™.
I will be opting all my apps out of the visionOS App Store until I've had enough time with a physical unit to ship a native version. I do not intend to have the iOS versions available, even in beta
"Gizmodo publisher G/O Media is also forging ahead with AI-generated blog posts, despite one that was widely mocked for getting a chronological list of Star Wars movies and TV shows very wrong. That and other AI-generated articles that appeared across the G/O network this month infuriated the company's human writers and editors."
Voller Fehler: Gizmodo-Artikel von KI sorgt für Frust in der Redaktion
Bei Gizmodo wurde ein Artikel zu Star Wars veröffentlicht, der von ChatGPT und Bard verfasst wurde und voller Fehler war. Der Ärger in der Redaktion ist immens.
"A new byline showed up Wednesday on the site of io9, the genre-entertainment section of Gizmodo tech website: “Gizmodo Bot.” And the site’s editorial staff appears to have not had any input or advance notice of the new AI-generated story about Star Wars movies and TV shows, which is said to have been the work of parent company G/O Media."
GMG Union protested G/O Media's decision to test AI-generated content and demanded that the company "invest in real journalism done by real journalists."
On that CNET thing in the last boost, my first thought was "this is gonna make search even more useless" and… yeeeep "They are clearly optimized to take advantage of Google’s search algorithms, and to end up at the top of peoples’ results pages"
More on the #Gizmodo#AI debacle: After publishing error-ridden #LLM garbage which their own editorial team called "fucking dogshit" 'a G/O Media spokesman, said the company would be “derelict” if it did not experiment with AI. “We think the AI trial has been successful,”'
G/O Media management continue their #AI enshitification of #Gizmodo, laying off staff of Spanish language site and switching to "AI" translation of English content
They know people who want shitty machine translations of the English content can already get that with Chrome or google translate, right?
‘We Are Appalled’: G/O Media Union Protests Company’s Decision to Test AI Content. [Kotaku, TheOnion, Gizmodo, Deadspin, TheRoot, etc] (www.mediaite.com)
GMG Union protested G/O Media's decision to test AI-generated content and demanded that the company "invest in real journalism done by real journalists."