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This is really unethical.


Being up front that these are AI generated and keeping people posted on how far along this technology is, is probably the more ethical thing to do.


Just wait until someone clones the website and removes the domain, then it gets quoted in some tabloid and then that is posted on a forum, then tweeted and finally the tweet is posted as news somewhere.

Additional point: the problem is not even the false stories themselves, it's the undermining of legitimacy in real news that it provokes.


What is "real news"? Anyone with some Wordpress experience and a domain can make their own "news site" and publish "real news".

I don't want to confirm or deny this: Singapore, Russia, China, and other countries are already doing this at a far more malicious and massive scale.

We're at least hoping people would understand how "AI generated news articles" look like, so one day they can spot them and know that the news you're reading is not real news.


The "what is real news?", "truth isn't truth!", "it's impossible to know anything for sure, so nothing can be said to be true or false!" arguments are kind of played out these days.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2018/12/11/truth-isn...

Giuliani: And when you tell me that, you know, he should testify because he’s going to tell the truth and he shouldn’t worry, well that’s so silly because it’s somebody’s version of the truth. Not the truth ...

Todd: Truth is truth. I don’t mean to go like ―

Giuliani: No, it isn’t truth. Truth isn’t truth. The president of the United States says, “I didn’t —”

Todd: Truth isn’t truth? Mr. Mayor, do you realize, what, I, I, I —

Giuliani: No, no, no —

Todd: This is going to be a bad meme.

Giuliani: Don’t do, don’t do this to me.

Todd: Don’t do ‘truth isn’t truth’ to me.


It's one thing to bring up the topic for discussion with some examples, it's another to create an entire site constantly generating bogus stories just to prove a point. I don't find the topic distasteful, I find the exposition irresponsible.




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