Quartz, an international business news outlet, has gently consolidated reports from other outlets, including Techniccrunch, to publish articles generated in AI under the byline of Quartz Intelligence Newsroom.
Quartz has launched a revenue report generated in a simple AI a few months ago, but from last week, the outlet has moved to a short article. One of the 18 AI published on Monday afternoon, titled “South Korea shares a preliminary survey result on Jeju Aerona Collision Survey.”
The length of each article generated in the AI of the outlet is about 400 words and does not include complete quotes from the source. Just as the flesh and blood journalists are, the Quartz AI writer quotes only the information source at the top of the fragment, rather than to belong to the text of the text.
Quartz Corporate’s parent G/O media spokesman is an “purely experimental” AI news room without commenting on AI models or tools used by AI to write a news article in which AI is generated. Confirmed to check TechCrunch.
It is not clear how Quartz’s AI news rooms choose the story. Spokesman is to release Quartz’s editing staff and “work on long and deeply reported articles”, and review the story generated in each AI before the editorial staff is released. I stated.
However, quality control seems to be lacking in one article in Quartz’s AI news room supplied last week.
The article in question is how to delete Facebook, Instagram, and thread accounts. For each platform, we will download and save data before deleting data, and ultimately explain the account step by step.
This was a strange article that turned into a summary generated by 300 words AI. Quartz’s heading -“How to remove Facebook, Instagram, Threads” suggests my Howt Piece. But the account deleting order is ambiguous.
To permanently delete a Facebook account, the user needs to move to the “Settings and Privacy” section and selects “account ownership and control”. It is important to be aware that if your account is deleted, you will not be able to get it. In the case of Instagram, the user downloads the data using the account center or settings before deleting the profile. To delete a thread profile, you need to delete a linked Instagram account because two are connected.
Perhaps I was able to pay all day to criticize “AI-NESS”, a quartz AI news room. In other words, look at this headline. “As continuous claims set a record, unemployment claims increase slightly.” Word echo is inconsistent, apart from Word echo. Unemployment claims have risen by “slightly”, but are other “continuous claims” set? TSK, TSK. My editor never made me do this sloppy thing.
The G/O Media, owned by a private equity company Great Hill Partner, fired in July 2023 to publish an AI generation content full of errors without input from the G/O editors and writers. At that time, the company’s editing director Merrill Brown defended this practice, even if G/O -owned outlet journalists, such as Gizmodo, opposed it.
The disclosure of content generated in AI presents a method for publishers like Quartz to access cheap labor. G/O’s spokeswoman said that the reader’s reaction and involvement in the AI story “far exceeded our expectations for this point.”
Spokesman also denied rumors of cash disasters, and the company said that “a sufficient amount of working funds to use as needed” was “very well funded.” They also stated that the previous staff’s reduction was due to the sale of several sites in 2024, but quartz was in the process of hiring more editors.
G/O is not the first media organization with AI’s generated content. CNET and Gannett have published stories and art that were actually generated in incorrect AI.
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