March 24, 2023
Splendid Edition
In This Issue
- How a guy with WordPress and a GPT-4 subscription can generate infinite content
- BuzzFeed has started using AI in January to generate content
- Before them, CNET Money has silently started publishing ChatGPT-generated content (full of inaccuracies that nobody bothered to fact-check)
- An AI makes it easy to paraphrase other AIs to not get caught by other AIs
- The publisher of the UK Daily Mirror wants to play the automated content publishing game, too
- The publisher of Sports Illustrated has been way faster than them
- It really doesn’t look bright for mediocre journalists, but they will fight back. Yes. By demanding a subsidy
- And by using AI to make you pay even harder for the AI-generated content that is inspired by your conversations on social media
- LinkedIn launches “collaborative articles” where AI does a tiny bit and you, the user, do the rest (their role in all of this is profiting, in case you are wondering)
- Every publishing platform and channel will be saturated with AI-generated content. It already started
- And it’s so severe that organizations like AP, Nature, Elsevier, and The Committee on Publication Ethics, had to create anti-AI policies
Intro
As I wrote in the Free Edition of this Issue, this is the first monthiversary of Synthetic Work. I owe you a special thank you, without jokes, because your support as paying members keeps the project alive.
This week, we talk about the Publishing industry. Wild things are happening under our noses.
Alessandro
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