Perplexity plagiarizes Wired story about Perplexity
Tim Marchman of Wired magazine writes about how artificial intelligence company Perplexity plagiarized a Wired story that called the company a “bullshit machine.” Marchman writes, “After we published the story, I prompted three leading chatbots to tell me about the story. OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Anthropic’s Claude generated text offering hypotheses about the story’s subject but noted that they had no […]
When your business news content gets stolen by AI
Forbes chief content officer Randall Lane writes about the impact of Perplexity taking the business news organization’s content without its permission and publishing it. Lane writes, “When Forbes Executive Editor John Paczkowski called out Srinivas on X for what the company had done, Srinivas responded that this new ‘product feature’ had some ‘rough edges.’ (‘Product feature sound […]
WSJ’s Tucker on how to thrive against AI
Charlotte Tobitt of Press Gazette interviewed Wall Street Journal editor in chief Emma Tucker on how it can protect itself from artificial intelligence content. Tobitt writes, “Since Tucker’s arrival the Wall Street Journal newsroom has seen a number of job cuts and other restructuring including to its Washington DC bureau. “Speaking at the Sir Harry Summit in London on Wednesday, Tucker […]
Bloomberg, AppliedXL launch AI-powered biotech news feed
Bloomberg and AppliedXl have launched an artificial intelligence-powered real-time news feed covering biotech for terminal clients. Bloomberg terminal users will be alerted to issues in clinical trials of new drugs and other events that may move the markets. They will also get analysis of how those issues impact an individual company as well as related […]
Gizmodo posts AI-generated story with errors
Tech news site Gizmodo posted a story about “Star Wars” movies on Wednesday generated by artificial intelligence that contained multiple errors, reports Todd Spangler of Variety. Spangler writes, “‘As you may have seen today, an AI-generated article appeared on io9,’ James Whitbrook, deputy editor at io9 and Gizmodo, tweeted about the situation. ‘I was informed approximately 10 […]
