{"id":9829,"date":"2023-04-30T10:37:16","date_gmt":"2023-04-30T08:37:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/04\/30\/ai-journalism-is-getting-harder-to-tell-from-the-old-fashioned-human-generated-kind-ian-tucker\/"},"modified":"2023-04-30T10:37:16","modified_gmt":"2023-04-30T08:37:16","slug":"ai-journalism-is-getting-harder-to-tell-from-the-old-fashioned-human-generated-kind-ian-tucker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/04\/30\/ai-journalism-is-getting-harder-to-tell-from-the-old-fashioned-human-generated-kind-ian-tucker\/","title":{"rendered":"AI journalism is getting harder to tell from the old-fashioned, human-generated kind | Ian Tucker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I rumbled a chatbot ruse \u2013 but as the tech improves, and news outlets begin to adopt it, how easy will it be to spot it next time?<\/p>\n<p>A couple of weeks ago I tweeted a call-out for freelance journalists to pitch me feature ideas for the science and sechnology section of <em> <\/em>the Observer\u2019s New Review. Unsurprisingly, given headlines, fears and interest in LLM (large language model) chatbots such as ChatGPT, many of the suggestions that flooded in focused on artificial intelligence \u2013 including a pitch about how it is being employed to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2023\/apr\/29\/could-ai-save-amazon-rainforest-artificial-intelligence-conservation-deforestation\">predict deforestation in the Amazon<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>One submission however, from an engineering student who had posted a couple of articles on Medium, seemed to be riding the artificial intelligence wave with more chutzpah. He offered three feature ideas \u2013 pitches on innovative agriculture, data storage and the therapeutic potential of VR. While coherent, the pitches had a bland authority about them, repetitive paragraph structure, and featured upbeat endings, which if you\u2019ve been toying with ChatGPT or reading about Google chatbot Bard\u2019s latest mishaps, are hints of chatbot-generated content.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2023\/apr\/30\/ai-journalism-is-getting-harder-to-tell-from-the-old-fashioned-human-generated-kind\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/a1a620a2b5ce357173f64fe4fb7907fff0d2fb22\/120_0_3600_2160\/master\/3600.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=c4fc6046be85713c053e733befcf65a6\" title=\"AI journalism is getting harder to tell from the old-fashioned, human-generated kind | Ian Tucker\" \/>I rumbled a chatbot ruse \u2013 but as the tech improves, and news outlets begin to adopt it, how easy will it be to spot it next time?<br \/>\nA couple of weeks ago I tweeted a call-out for freelance journalists to pitch me feature ideas for the science and sechnology section of  the Observer\u2019s New Review. Unsurprisingly, given headlines, fears and interest in LLM (large language model) chatbots such as ChatGPT, many of the suggestions that flooded in focused on artificial intelligence \u2013 including a pitch about how it is being employed to predict deforestation in the Amazon.<br \/>\nOne submission however, from an engineering student who had posted a couple of articles on Medium, seemed to be riding the artificial intelligence wave with more chutzpah. He offered three feature ideas \u2013 pitches on innovative agriculture, data storage and the therapeutic potential of VR. While coherent, the pitches had a bland authority about them, repetitive paragraph structure, and featured upbeat endings, which if you\u2019ve been toying with ChatGPT or reading about Google chatbot Bard\u2019s latest mishaps, are hints of chatbot-generated content. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I rumbled a chatbot ruse \u2013 but as the tech improves, and news outlets begin to adopt it, how easy will it be to spot it next time? A couple of weeks ago I tweeted a call-out for freelance journalists to pitch me feature ideas for the science and sechnology section of the Observer\u2019s New &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/04\/30\/ai-journalism-is-getting-harder-to-tell-from-the-old-fashioned-human-generated-kind-ian-tucker\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">AI journalism is getting harder to tell from the old-fashioned, human-generated kind | Ian Tucker<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":9830,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9829"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9829\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}