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I don't doubt that the redditors caught this company using an AI, but frankly the generated text doesn't look that different from what an underpaid human would

I don't doubt that the redditors caught this company using an AI, but frankly the generated text doesn't look that different from what an underpaid human would write. I'm sure most of these gaming websites have a "content calendar" and "pipelines" for paying their outsourced writers $0.80 per word with instructions to source new content from relevant subreddits. With AI they've just found a way to do it more cheaply.

monkpit 3y ago
The article quotes the OP saying they hope it gets picked up by bot-driven news sites. While it’s possible, I don’t think a human would include that bit.
falcor84 3y ago
$0.80 per word is actually really decent money; I'd expect them to be paying a lot less.
- dylan604 3y ago
  at first because of the context, I read it as ¢0.80 cents per word, but my brain got all tripped up over the dollar sign. I then started thinking about looking for a way to apply for that job. For $0.80 cents per word, I could wax poetically for pages upon pages of nonsense. I could even make it more beneficial for me by never using more than 2 syllable words. Using 3+ syllable words would start costing me money.
  - sfn42 3y ago
    Its easier if you drop the redundancy. Write $5, not $5 dollars. The dollar sign denotes the unit, there is no reason to add the word after. Alternatively you could just write "5 dollars", there is no need for the dollar sign when you write "dollars" right after. That way you dont have to worry about keeping your redundant units in sync.
- StrictDabbler 3y ago
  $0.08-$0.12/word is the rate for a quality short story in a moderately respectable science fiction magazine like Clarkesworld or Asimov's Science Fiction. This is also a generally-quoted rate for blogspam. The blogspam rate will crater in response to ML but still I expect the short story to become a dead format. Many good ones will be written but there will be nowhere valuable to share or find them.
  - b800h 3y ago
    They'll need to create some sort of reputation system to make it work. Alternatively, move back to typewriters and not publishing online. AI reversing the internet again.
- TechBro8615 3y ago
  Yeah, I think I dropped a zero :) For 80 cents a word I might just switch jobs.
furyofantares 3y ago
80 cents per word sounds amazing, your comment is worth like 50 bucks at that rate. If it took you half an hour to write you'd still be getting a pretty good rate.
- olyjohn 3y ago
  It was probably just an example, not meant to be taken literally.
olyjohn 3y ago
Great. So now that they can do it more cheaply, they can afford to do more of it. I don't get what's up with this attitude of "It's already shit, so it doesn't bother me that AI makes it even shittier."

monkpit 3y ago

The article quotes the OP saying they hope it gets picked up by bot-driven news sites. While it’s possible, I don’t think a human would include that bit.

falcor84 3y ago

$0.80 per word is actually really decent money; I'd expect them to be paying a lot less.

dylan604 3y ago
at first because of the context, I read it as ¢0.80 cents per word, but my brain got all tripped up over the dollar sign. I then started thinking about looking for a way to apply for that job. For $0.80 cents per word, I could wax poetically for pages upon pages of nonsense. I could even make it more beneficial for me by never using more than 2 syllable words. Using 3+ syllable words would start costing me money.
- sfn42 3y ago
  Its easier if you drop the redundancy. Write $5, not $5 dollars. The dollar sign denotes the unit, there is no reason to add the word after. Alternatively you could just write "5 dollars", there is no need for the dollar sign when you write "dollars" right after. That way you dont have to worry about keeping your redundant units in sync.
StrictDabbler 3y ago
$0.08-$0.12/word is the rate for a quality short story in a moderately respectable science fiction magazine like Clarkesworld or Asimov's Science Fiction. This is also a generally-quoted rate for blogspam. The blogspam rate will crater in response to ML but still I expect the short story to become a dead format. Many good ones will be written but there will be nowhere valuable to share or find them.
- b800h 3y ago
  They'll need to create some sort of reputation system to make it work. Alternatively, move back to typewriters and not publishing online. AI reversing the internet again.
TechBro8615 3y ago
Yeah, I think I dropped a zero :) For 80 cents a word I might just switch jobs.

furyofantares 3y ago

80 cents per word sounds amazing, your comment is worth like 50 bucks at that rate. If it took you half an hour to write you'd still be getting a pretty good rate.

olyjohn 3y ago
It was probably just an example, not meant to be taken literally.

olyjohn 3y ago

Great. So now that they can do it more cheaply, they can afford to do more of it. I don't get what's up with this attitude of "It's already shit, so it doesn't bother me that AI makes it even shittier."