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Wikipedia No Longer Considers CNET a “Generally Reliable” Source After AI Scandal
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Wikipedia No Longer Considers CNET a “Generally Reliable” Source After AI Scandal

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

CNET owner Red Ventures is reportedly having a tough time finding a buyer for the website —  and CNET's AI scandal bears some of the blame.
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CNET’s Publisher Having Trouble Selling It Due to AI Scandal

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

In an all-hands meeting, Red Ventures CEO Ric Elias laid out an expansive plan for the publisher's AI-driven future.
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CNET’s Parent Company Preparing to Kickstart the AI Content Engine

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

G/O Media, an online media company that owns Gizmodo and Kotaku has announced that it will begin a "modest test" of AI content on its sites.
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Gizmodo and Kotaku Staff Furious After Owner Announces Move to AI Content

By Victor Tangermann

Bankrate started publishing AI-generated content again -- but quickly deleted it after we pointed out it was loaded with errors.
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Bankrate Posts AI-Generated Article, Deletes It When We Point Out It’s Full of Errors

By Jon Christian

CNET staffers are unionizing, and they've named AI — and the lived impact that AI initiatives have on human life and work — as a concern.
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CNET Staff Unionize, Saying AI Use “Threatens Our Jobs and Reputations”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Internal correspondence obtained Futurism alleges that CNET has gutted 50 percent of its news and video staff in its recent layoffs.
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CNET’s Post-AI Layoffs Apparently Gutted 50 Percent of Its News and Video Staff

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Don't worry, the culling of its human workers is entirely unrelated to its pivot to AI-generated dreck, CNET says. That settles it, right?
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CNET Says It’s a Total Coincidence It’s Laying Off Humans After Publishing AI-Generated Articles

By Frank Landymore

After infamously pivoting to AI article writing, CNET owner Red Ventures appears to be hitting staff with a fresh round of layoffs.
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CNET Hits Staff With Layoffs After Disastrous Pivot to AI Journalism

By Jon Christian, Noor Al-Sibai

Just weeks after pressing pause on publishing AI-generated content, CNET owner Red Ventures appears poised to greenlight its AI program once again.
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CNET’s Owner Preparing to Restart Publishing AI-Generated Content

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

CNET was treating its human journalists like robots long before turning to AI-generated content. I would know -- I worked there.
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CNET Was Treating Staff Like Robots Long Before Publishing AI-Generated Articles

By Sarah Szczypinski

The parent company of Sports Illustrated has announced that its magazines will begin using artificial intelligence to churn out garbage content.
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“AI Will Never Replace Journalism,” Says Magazine CEO Replacing Journalists With AI

By Noor Al-Sibai

BuzzFeed choosing to bring OpenAI in to beef up its quizzes is certainly not great news in this economy — but it's nowhere near as bad as CNET's AI content.
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Whatever You Think of BuzzFeed’s AI Quizzes, They’re Way Less Horrible Than What CNET Has Been Doing

By Noor Al-Sibai

CNET leadership was reportedly aware that its deeply flawed AI had a habit of fabricating facts and plagiarizing others' work — and deployed it anyway.
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Red Ventures Knew Its AI Lied and Plagiarized, Deployed It at CNET Anyway

By Jon Christian

Leaked messages from CNET's parent company, Red Ventures, show deep concern about a potential consequence of AI-generated content.
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Leaked Messages Show How CNET’s Parent Company Really Sees AI-Generated Content

By Jon Christian

CNET's sister site Bankrate published a new AI generated article -- and, like CNET's, it wasn't the most accurate thing we've ever seen.
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CNET Sister Site Restarts AI Articles, Immediately Publishes Idiotic Error

By Jon Christian