From children's books to recipes, AI tools such as ChatGPT provide the right answers we want to hear. While the platform is here to stay for some reason, others think that overusing it might be detrimental to other people who write content for a living.
As such, AI-authored content is almost everywhere on the internet. It's a matter of time before they occupy the web space with so much suspicious information.
AI-Written Recipes and Reviews Are Widespread
AI-written articles about recipes and product reviews are flocking the internet every now and then since ChatGPT became popular.
The Washington Post reports that Chris Cowell's experience sums up how people see AI-written books on the internet.
The software developer from Portland said that he spent over three years writing his own stuff, but only a few weeks before the launch of his book, he discovered a suspicious book bearing the same title as his own.
According to Cowell, the listing on Amazon suggests that Marie Karpos, author of the "Automating DevOps with GitLab CI/CD Pipelines" book. The writer's identity is mysterious to him since he has not yet heard of it.
When he searched it up online, it appeared that ChatGPT wrote the book. What's alarming is that the reviews are not trusted either. The five-star reviews on Amazon came from Indian reviewers whose identities are dubious. The book was published under inKstall, an educational tech firm in Mumbai.
The case of Cowell is only one of many cases which emphasize that AI-written content is not to be underestimated. Given that it's now easier to publish works online, it's also easier to fake the name of the authors as if they are the legit writers of the book, recipe, or blog post.
"If you have a connection to the internet, you have consumed AI-generated content. It's already here," New York-based e-commerce investor Jonathan Greenglass said.
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AI-Authored Books Could Likely Bring Misinformation
Some online readers have no clue that what they're reading online is just machine-generated articles. It's kind of alarming to think that these personalized articles often produce junk misinformation and data manipulation.
According to Hugging Face chief ethics scientist Margaret Mitchell, AI does not know the truth in every content that it writes. The system will only continue to get full without grounding.
In another report by The Register, Newsguard found that 49 news sites contained AI-fabricated content. With the ease of use for ChatGPT, it's no wonder why click-bait articles are on the rise, and Google does not bother to exclude them from the search results.
Newsguard also claimed that AI tools tend to emulate how actual human writers write their reports. It's simply a downgrade from the usual content, given the amount of misinformation they produce.
Indeed, AI is a double-edged sword that needs to be used properly. In some situations, it is helpful, but it can also worsen the quality of content by bringing untruthful data to the public.
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