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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Technology
Alex Hern

Chatbot ‘journalists’ found running almost 50 AI-generated content farms

Futuristic graphical user interface data screen
The AI-generated content was discovered by searching for common error messages. Photograph: Yuichiro Chino/Getty Images

Chatbots pretending to be journalists have been discovered running almost 50 AI-generated “content farms” so far, according to an investigation by the anti-misinformation outfit NewsGuard.

The websites churn out content relating to politics, health, environment, finance and technology at a “high volume”, the researchers found, to provide rapid turnover of material to saturate with adverts for profit.

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