The blogging platform Medium is facing an influx of AI-generated content. CEO Tony Stubblebine says it “doesn’t matter” as long as nobody reads it.

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Earlier this year, WIRED asked AI detection startup Pangram Labs to analyze Medium. It took a sampling of 274,466 recent posts over a six week period and estimated that over 47 percent were likely AI-generated. “This is a couple orders of magnitude more than what I see on the rest of the internet,” says Pangram CEO Max Spero. (The company’s analysis of one day of global news sites this summer found 7 percent as likely AI-generated.)

  • Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.techEnglish
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    24 days ago

    I just had one of these! Literally each image was AI generated and everything real like it was from openai. It was a Google search for something like “kubernetes custom deployment rules” and it was a result that was like “kubelat.medium.com” or something. They just take the most asked questions and generate entire articles about them.

    I just went to the source and asked chatGpt directly. I got a better answer anyway