{"id":19901,"date":"2025-08-27T08:38:34","date_gmt":"2025-08-27T06:38:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/27\/chatgpt-has-its-uses-but-i-still-hate-it-and-ill-tell-you-why-imogen-west-knights\/"},"modified":"2025-08-27T08:38:34","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T06:38:34","slug":"chatgpt-has-its-uses-but-i-still-hate-it-and-ill-tell-you-why-imogen-west-knights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/27\/chatgpt-has-its-uses-but-i-still-hate-it-and-ill-tell-you-why-imogen-west-knights\/","title":{"rendered":"ChatGPT has its uses, but I still hate it \u2013 and I\u2019ll tell you why | Imogen West-Knights"},"content":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s bad for the planet and could make many jobs \u2013 including mine \u2013 obsolete. But my loathing runs deeper than that<\/p>\n

It\u2019s one of those topics that comes up over drinks or dinner at the moment: whether or not you think AI is going to steal your job. So far, I\u2019ve felt relatively confident that while AI could no doubt have a fair crack at writing a newspaper opinion column, there is something I do as part of my work that AI cannot: reporting.<\/p>\n

Except now, it seems, AI is claiming to be doing that as well. Last week, it was revealed that at least six reputable publications<\/a> have had to take down published articles because it turned out that they were probably pieces of fiction written by AI and then passed off by somebody as works of journalism under the name of Margaux Blanchard. One of these was a piece for Wired titled They Fell in Love Playing Minecraft. Then the Game Became Their Wedding Venue, which quoted a \u201cdigital celebrant\u201d called Jessica Hu, who does not seem to actually exist. Another publication, called Dispatch, received a pitch from \u201cBlanchard\u201d about an ex-mining town called Gravemont that had been repurposed as a training ground for death investigation. Gravemont doesn\u2019t exist either.<\/p>\n

Imogen West-Knights is a writer and journalist<\/p>\n

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\nIt\u2019s bad for the planet and could make many jobs \u2013 including mine \u2013 obsolete. But my loathing runs deeper than that
\nIt\u2019s one of those topics that comes up over drinks or dinner at the moment: whether or not you think AI is going to steal your job. So far, I\u2019ve felt relatively confident that while AI could no doubt have a fair crack at writing a newspaper opinion column, there is something I do as part of my work that AI cannot: reporting.
\nExcept now, it seems, AI is claiming to be doing that as well. Last week, it was revealed that at least six reputable publications have had to take down published articles because it turned out that they were probably pieces of fiction written by AI and then passed off by somebody as works of journalism under the name of Margaux Blanchard. One of these was a piece for Wired titled They Fell in Love Playing Minecraft. Then the Game Became Their Wedding Venue, which quoted a \u201cdigital celebrant\u201d called Jessica Hu, who does not seem to actually exist. Another publication, called Dispatch, received a pitch from \u201cBlanchard\u201d about an ex-mining town called Gravemont that had been repurposed as a training ground for death investigation. Gravemont doesn\u2019t exist either.
\nImogen West-Knights is a writer and journalist Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s bad for the planet and could make many jobs \u2013 including mine \u2013 obsolete. But my loathing runs deeper than that It\u2019s one of those topics that comes up over drinks or dinner at the moment: whether or not you think AI is going to steal your job. So far, I\u2019ve felt relatively confident …<\/p>\n

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