In April 2023, NewsGuard identified 49 websites spanning seven languages — Chinese, Czech, English, French, Portuguese, Tagalog, and Thai — that appear to be entirely or mostly generated by artificial intelligence language models designed to mimic human communication — here in the form of what appear to be typical news websites.
Yep, it’s really frustrating - the false information is a real problem, and the fact that their output is so huge means that their SEO is unfortunately really well optimized. So you want to make a simple search on a specific topic and end up on articles that are clearly AI-generated, all over the first and second pages of your search engine.
I enjoy the blog post by Curtis McHale on how he mostly uses YouTube and Reddit for information rather than search engines nowadays.
I wasn’t aware of these sources, thanks for posting. We’ll certainly need to do a lot to combat and detect ‘fake news’, but I’m wondering whether Blockchain-based technologies could help in some cases to prove the provenance and integrity of ‘news’ as a digital asset. It’s not (yet?) used for these kind of things and there is little research about it.