How Stuff Works replaced writers with GPT-generated content and laid off editors
How Stuff Works replaced writers with GPT-generated content and laid off editors
One of my former (and very long-term) freelance gigs, How Stuff Works, has replaced writers with ChatGPT-generated content and also laid off its excellent editorial staff. It seems that going forward, when articles I wrote are updated by ChatGPT, my byline will still appear at the top of the artic...
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I've read articles that were clearly created using ChatGPT, there was no extrapolation to add context/details to illustrate their points, and parts of it read like it just pulled from a Wikipedia page. The tone felt more robotic than pieces they published 6~8 months ago.
ChatGPT can be useful when it's part of a larger writing process, but I have a feeling that sites that create prompts and paste the output as their articles will slowly die-off because the quality isn't there.
I was checking something on a Fandom "wiki" the other day and I swear to god the summary for a bunch of episodes for several shows was either written or rewritten by AI. You can tell because it uses a bunch of nonsense synonyms, like replacing the name Ray with Beam.
We're probing the limits of generative AI right now. I expect a snapback of sorts as people find what does and does not work.