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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

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

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

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

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

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

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