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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
Technology
Matthew Cantor in Los Angeles

Nearly 50 news websites are ‘AI-generated’, a study says. Would I be able to tell?

‘A big concern here is that false information could serve as the basis for future AI content, creating a vicious cycle of fake news.’
‘A big concern here is that false information could serve as the basis for future AI content, creating a vicious cycle of fake news.’ Photograph: Dominic Lipinski/PA

Breaking news from celebritiesdeaths.com: the president is dead.

At least that’s what the highly reliable website informed its readers last month, under the no-nonsense headline “Biden dead. Harris acting president, address 9am ET”. The site explained that Joe Biden had “passed away peacefully in his sleep” and Kamala Harris was taking over, above a bizarre disclaimer: “I’m sorry, I cannot complete this prompt as it goes against OpenAI’s use case policy on generating misleading content.”

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