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How Microsoft is making a mess of the news after replacing staff with AI
- ilrwbwrkhv 3y agoMicrosoft is the spammiest of the big tech. Not a surprise then.
- ForOldHack 3y agoNews.(tm) a featured Microsoft product. Unbiased? Windows ME was a great product. Buy more Vista. I'll be here all week. (*Note: this post was NOT written by AI, and a spell checker is not AI. Its not even I. )
- shrimp_emoji 3y agoIt's not I because it's something we've managed to implement, making it no longer impressive. :p
- gumballindie 3y ago> false and bizarre stories Seems like procedural text generators arent that far worse from their human “news”writing counterparts.
- jackyard86 3y agoAll the articles are written by human, and the algorithm only takes the responsibility of "curating" articles. I think it's more bizarre that these kind of stories are actually written by human.
- 998244353 3y agoWell, they claim to be written by a human. I would not be surprised at all if someone working for a dubious online news site wrote these articles with ChatGPT and Microsoft's curator AI happily picked them up.
- AndrewKemendo 3y agoMany people on this site continue to argue that AI has zero effect on jobs. From the article: “ But in recent years Microsoft has laid off editors, some of whom were told they were being replaced by “automation,” what they understand to be AI.” So, there, unambiguous and with a negative overall impact. What more do you want as a proof that not only is “AI” killing jobs, the replacement is measurably worse
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- psygn89 3y agoThe blind effect of not being affected... yet.
- is_true 3y agoThey were curators mostly
- AndrewKemendo 3y agoThey came for the curators and I stayed quiet because I was better than the curators …and anyway that’s not a real job, anyone can do it obviously if it’s so easy to automate I’m sure they can just find another job, and besides they should have been working on getting out of that job given that they saw the writing on the wall. I mean that’s what I did, I was able to switch careers into coding and there’s no reason that everyone else on the planet couldn’t do that So really it’s their fault and they should have planned for this
- is_true 3y agoI don't think anyone is at "fault" here.
- AndrewKemendo 3y agoUnbelievable
- tonfreed 3y agoInteresting that they lead with Joe Biden falling asleep (for which there's video proof) and lump it in with internet boomer schizo talking points. Feels like CNN might be trying to prime the pump a little.
- slumos 3y ago> Full, high-quality video from C-SPAN, however, clearly shows that the president was not sleeping during the event. https://www.newsweek.com/joe-biden-fall-asleep-maui-fire-event-fact-check-1821663 https://www.newsweek.com/joe-biden-fall-asleep-maui-fire-eve...
- musicale 3y agoAdmittedly it can be hard to tell.
- superduty 3y agoCertainly not the first time Microsoft had made a mess of news. The cesspool of idiots that is MSNBC comes to mind.
- musicale 3y ago> cesspool of idiots Not necessarily stupid though - Rachel Maddow was a Rhodes Scholar and also earned a dPhil.
- BMc2020 3y agorecent articles by Donie O'Sullivan: How Microsoft is making a mess of the news after replacing staff with AI How Microsoft’s AI is messing up the news Fake placenames with anti-Israel messages flood Google Maps’ depiction of the Rafah border crossing between Gaza and Egypt Musk’s X cashes in on ‘superspreaders’ of Israel-Hamas misinformation, new report finds Take a look at Hamas’ sophisticated social media use to recruit new followers Hamas’ social media following has skyrocketed since its attack. America is powerless to stop it Fake video of the Israel-Hamas conflict is spreading. See where it came from Watch: CNN debunks Israel-Hamas misinfo videos going viral on X EU warns Elon Musk of ‘penalties’ for disinformation circulating on X amid Israel-Hamas war Watch: CNN debunks Israel-Hamas misinfo videos going viral on X I'm starting to see a pattern. And who names their kid Donie?
- zubairq 3y agoI think that in the end AI will create far more jobs than it destroys as these jobs will be to cleanup the mess made by AI
- vivekd 3y ago>poll next to murdered woman about why she died >saying Democrats are causing covid >saying dead basketball player is useless I mean these seem like problems that could be easily solved by having a human intern read over the AI generated story before it's published. I don't understand why Microsoft just let an experimental tech run a customer facing site without anyone to at least vet and read over the content
- solarkraft 3y ago0 respect for customers could be a reason, you also see it in Windows.
- falloutx 3y agoIts even strange that they have 200k employees and yet they couldn't even have like 20 people on this site to proof read it? And they expect millions of people to read it. MS leadership keeps making bizarre decisions.
- JohnClark1337 3y ago[dead]
- musicale 3y agoUnlike CNN, which does it the old-fashioned way.