Quartz is quietly publishing AI-generated news articles

International Business News is collecting quietly reporting from other outlets, including Techcranches, to publish AI-generated articles under “Quartz Intelligence Newsroom”, “Quartz Intelligence Newsroom”.

Quartz began publishing reports of simple AI-generated earnings months ago, but beginning Last weekThe outlet proceeded to short articles. One of the 18 AI-Generated Articles published on Monday afternoon, title “South Korea shares the initial findings on Jeju Air Crash Investigation“Consolidation Reporting by actual journalists of Associated Press on CNN, MSN and MSN.com.

The length of the AI-generated articles of each outlet is about 400 words, and does not contain any complete quotes from the sources. Instead of being attributed to information in the main part of the text, such as meat and blood journalists, Quartz’s AI author quotes its sources at the very top of its pieces.

Quartz Corporate Parent G/O Media spokesman confirmed the existence of the “pure experimental” AI Newsroom, without commenting on AI-generated news articles using AI models or tools to write.

It is not clear that Quartz’s AI Newsroom chooses which stories cover. The spokesperson said the goal is to release the editorial employees of Quartz for “working on long and more deployed articles”, and that the editorial employees review each AI-generated story before it is published.

There seems to be a lack of quality control, however, by an article that the AI ​​Newsroom of Quartz was obtained from TechCrunch last week.

The article in question is a part I wrote in detail How can you delete Your Facebook, Instagram and threads accounts. For each platform, it provides step-by-step instructions on how to download and save your accounts before and eventually ting your data.

This was a strange article to turn into a 300-word AI-generated summary. Heading of the Quartz article-“How to delete your Facebook, Instagram and threads right now” hints at the same piece as “. But the instructions for lifting his account tion are unclear:

To permanently delete the Facebook account, users must navigate to the “Settings and Privacy” section and select “Account ownership and control”. It is important to note that once the account is deleted, it cannot be retrieved. For Instagram, users use an account center or settings to download their data before they ting their profile. Threads profiles need to be removed from the linked Instagram account to tingle the ting, as the two are interconnected.

I can probably spend all day to criticize the “I-News” of AI Newsroom articles in Quartz. I mean, just look at this heading: “Unemployment claims increase slightly as the consistent claims have made a record.” The word echo is a contradiction, the clause. Unemployed claims are only increasing “slightly”, even though some other “current claims” records? TSK, TSK. My editor will never allow me to publish such an OP.

G/O Media, owned by private equity firm Great Hill Partners, Came under fire in July 2023 To publish AI-generated material filled with error without the input of G/O’s editors or authors. At that time the company’s editorial director, Merrill Brown, Defended the practiceIt was also objected by journalists from G/O-Maliki outlets like Jizmodo.

AI-generated material release presents a way for publishers such as quartz-AI-AI-AI-AI. A spokesman for G/O said that the reader response and engagement with his AI stories “is much higher than our expectations until this issue.”

The spokesman also refused Rumor Cash difficulties say the company “very well -funded” in which “a good amount of working capital to move forward if necessary.” They also noted that the decline in the previous staff was due to the sale of some sites in 2024, but it was about to hire more editorial employees.

G/O is not the first media organization to dubl a generated material. CNT And the gennet has published inappropriate AI-generated stories and art in their own fact, and in-case Sports illustrated – Under fake bylines.

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