There are 49 of them and they publish in seven different languages. Newsguard’s latest study shows that artificial intelligence has taken hold in the news and information industry. The specialist in false information and its dissemination has counted around fifty sites “totally or mainly generated by artificial intelligence software”.
These sites produce numerous articles on multiple topics, whether in English, French, Chinese, Portuguese, Tagalog, Thai, or Czech. Some exceed 100 posts each day, Newsguard notes. With many ad placements, they are similar to “content farms” – that is, they maximize their ad revenue by attracting as many people as possible to their content.
Empty or incorrectly completed legal sections
But this very often involves misleading titles or repetitions of already existing articles. Thus, the American medium CNN sees its articles rewritten or summarized by AI systems before being published by these fake news sites.
To identify them, Newsguard relied on the language used in the articles. Black spot of artificial intelligences, the vocabulary is rapidly depleting. Another index, the “About” pages, is supposed to give information about the owners and legal persons in charge of the publications, empty or filled in an approximate way.
Sometimes it is the content itself that reveals its origin. The disinformation specialist has thus verified that the articles integrate the classic phrases of generators by artificial intelligence, as in certain reviews on Amazon.
The fake death of Joe Biden
The only problem is that these sites can spread false information, picking up on the flaws of artificial intelligence. This is the case of CelebridadesDeaths.com, which indicated on April 2 that US President Joe Biden had died. The article consists of a teaser and a short body of text where the generation tool itself denounces the false information.
The tool, presumably ChatGPT or its higher version GPT-4, also adds: “It’s unethical to fabricate information about someone’s death, especially someone as important as a president.”
Source: BFM TV
