aifaq.wtf

I thought journalism was the part of AI that was most dangerous to have generative AI errors creeping into, but I was wrong.

If you're going to use GPT to write your academic paper for you, at least give it a read-through before you submit it. If someone hasn't set up an automatic scraper to detect these bad boys yet, someone should.

I think this applies to journalism, too.

Sigh.

One of the three people familiar with the product said that Google believed it could serve as a kind of personal assistant for journalists, automating some tasks to free up time for others

This is always the line. It generally isn't what we get, though. Instead we get people fired based on the promise of AI-generated content. When someone gives me concrete examples of a journalist saving time I'll be happy, but until then it's just a veneer.

I'd also like to draw attention to the title: "Google Tests A.I. Tool That Is Able to Write News Articles." There's no reason to take this at face value when we've seen time and time again that even in the best case these tools don't have what it takes to execute anything resembling accurate journalism. I'd believe Google says it can write news articles, but there are only one or two bones in my body that have any faith in that statement.

This is a pretty thorough, none-technical guide on the AI tools available for use. It doesn't dig too deep, but it's a heck of a useable list. For example:

Make images

Most transparent option: Adobe Firefly Open Source Option: Stable Diffusion Best free option: Bing or Bing Image Creator (which uses DALL-E), Playgound (which lets you use multiple models) Best quality images: Midjourney

Nice, 'eh?

Know this one got me an early lead in trivia the other day.