G/O Media, who owns popular tech site Gizmodo along with a slew of other outlets, began publishing AI-generated articles last week, despite strong objections from many of the members of its staff, according to The Washington Post. The articles are all credited to various bots — Gizmodo Bot, for example — with no other indication that the article was created using an AI chatbot. Unsurprisingly, the stories needed a lot of work.
I think you are underestimating the amount of people out there who literally just want a list of the ten best of anything with minimal explanation.
I’ve got a family member who loves reading off dumb lists every day without paying any attention to who is writing the list or why. Some of the people on the internet are elderly people who are trying to stay in the loop but also have eroded critical thinking capabilities and they will probably gobble AI articles up.