2023-05-17 10:39:55
The Irish Times recently had to deal with an absurd case: someone deliberately misled the editors and managed to publish an article “written” by artificial intelligence (AI) as a guest author.
What makes the strange story especially funny is that the said article was published on a completely parodic topic: a woman claiming to be Adriana Acosta-Cortez wrote regarding how, as a young Ecuadorian immigrant, she finds the use of self-tanning spray to be exclusionary for Irish ladies. Although raising the topic is perhaps unthinkable in Hungary, in the West there are regular discussions regarding the so-called regarding “blackface” or cultural appropriation.
The editor Ruadhán Mac Cormaic, who published the material, admitted his mistake, but he emphasized that it is a systemic problem: “This error brought to the surface the problem of what news portals should do with the challenges caused by generative artificial intelligence.” The author of the article himself submitted his topic proposal to the editors and offered to write the article, but no one at the paper noticed that his profile picture was also generated by AI, and that part of the article was completely written by a machine.
Unsurprisingly, the incident caused an uproar among the newspaper’s readers as well. There were those who demanded on Twitter that the submitted topics be checked more thoroughly, according to others, however, it is not possible to read the newspaper with a good heart following that, as the editorial practice has become frivolous. Of course, there were also those who congratulated “Adriana Acosta-Cortez,” who pulled off the scam, whose real identity is still shrouded in obscurity.
Not only in Ireland, a press scandal broke out recently because of artificial intelligence. On April 14, the German tabloid Die Aktuelle He “made” an interview with Michael Schumacher, in which ChatGPT answered instead of the racing driver. After the publication of the article, the Schumacher family announced that they would sue the newspaper, and the public condemned the case.
In America, a Wall Street Journal reporter tried it, how he can create a clone of himself with the help of artificial intelligence, which was so successful that he was able to deceive his bank and close relatives. These media hacks are considered isolated incidents for now, but they definitely raise the moral and legal dilemmas the world will soon have to face.
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