CNET will show more clearly which articles are written by AI

News site CNET will make it clearer which articles have been written by an AI. The editors have been experimenting with this for several weeks, but received a lot of criticism because there were errors in the articles and the site was not transparent about it.

CNET gives in an article that it has now had about 75 articles partly written by artificial intelligence. It concerns explanation articles such as an explanation of rising interest rates. They are published under the CNET Money banner, the financial editors. It is not known exactly what software CNET uses for this. The site came under fire when websites like Futurism noticed that the text was not written by themselves. There were also regular major errors in the texts.

CNET’s editor-in-chief now responds to the situation in an article. “The Money editors are testing the technology to see if it can be used pragmatically for standard explanation articles about financial services,” writes Connie Guglielmo. “The goal is to see if technology can help our editors in their task of highlighting a subject from all sides.”

At the same time, it is only about help, says Guglielmo, and not about completely outsourcing the writing. “While the AI ​​can lay out the story and gather information, every article on the site is proofread and fact-checked by knowledgeable editors.” According to Guglielmo, that will remain the case.

CNET will from now on clarify that the articles are written by an AI. From now on, all articles will only be published under the name ‘CNET Money’ and not under the personal titles of editors. It will also be stated directly above the article that the article was created by an AI. It was first there under the author’s name as extra information.