The slippery slope of AI-written articles has arrived
(CrackBerry.com)

It was bound to happen sooner or later: artificial intelligence writing articles on major publications. But is it a bad thing, or just the beginning of the next industrial revolution?The future is already here. Long-time internet-based tech news publisher CNET got caught using AI to write more than 70 articles in their finance section. But... is that a bad thing? Yes, and no. We`ve all seen reporting about the new artificial intelligence chatbot ChatGPT, and many of you have probably even played around with it. It`s really impressive technology, and it`s fascinating to wonder about where this sort of tech could lead in the future. And for writers like myself, that`s intriguing and terrifying. On one hand, AI could mean offloading the boring and banal articles I might need to write to a machine that can pump them out in a fraction of the time it would take for me to research, understand, and synthesize the information into a coherent explainer. Then all I would have to do is give i...