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I work for Red Ventures, which owns the tech news site CNET and many others — which the company is now pumping full of articles churned out by a shadowy AI.

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I Work for CNET’s Parent Company. Its AI-Generated Articles Disgust Me.

By Anonymous Red Ventures Employee

This morning, CNET editor-in-chief Connie Guglielmo broke the site's lengthy silence on its decision to publish dozens of AI-generated articles on its site.

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News Site Admits AI Journalist Plagiarized and Made Stuff Up, Announces Plans to Continue Publishing Its Work Anyway

By Jon Christian

As the fallout from CNET's scandalous experiment with AI generated articles continues, a big Red Ventures rival has made its stance known.

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Rival Slams CNET: “We Will Never Have an Article Written by a Machine”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

CNET's AI-generated articles appear to show deep structural similarities, amounting to plagiarism, with previously published work elsewhere.

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CNET’s AI Journalist Appears to Have Committed Extensive Plagiarism

By Jon Christian

CNET and Bankrate parent company Red Ventures says it's pausing its AI-generated content efforts -- until the negative press dies down, at least.

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CNET and Bankrate Say They’re Pausing AI-Generated Articles Until Negative Headlines Stop

By Jon Christian

Dubious online marketers at the notorious SEO forum BlackHatWorld see CNET's use of AI as a sign of Google opening the floodgates to AI written content.

SEO Spammers Are Absolutely Thrilled Google Isn’t Cracking Down on CNET’s AI-Generated Articles

By Frank Landymore

CNET insiders are making a startling claim: that the tech site has been secretly publishing material that wasn't labeled as bot-written at all.

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CNET Secretly Used AI on Articles That Didn’t Disclose That Fact, Staff Say

By Jon Christian

Any and all CNET stories about AI are marked with a very odd editor's note that lets readers know that elsewhere on the site, AI is writing articles.

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After Scandal, CNET Adds Strange Disclaimer to Human-Written Articles About AI

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The AI bot that CNET is using to churn out personal finance articles has a relatable problem: it keeps making dumb mistakes.

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CNET’s Article-Writing AI Is Already Publishing Very Dumb Errors

By Jon Christian

Writers and journalists across the industry weigh in on the upsetting news that CNET has been using an AI to write its financial explainers.

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Internet Horrified by CNET Secretively Publishing Articles Written by an AI

By Frank Landymore