G/O Media has in recent months taken a headstrong approach in embracing automation tools including artificial intelligence.
A G/O Media spokesperson would not comment beyond the contents of the memo. A source familiar with the company’s plans said G/O was employing Google Translate for the translations and the change was planned months before AI tests began.by Futurism noted that the automated-translated articles were often improperly translated or, in some cases, not fully translated at all.
“This move to eliminate the Español team represents yet another broken promise from G/O Media CEO Jim Spanfeller and Editorial Director Merrill Brown, who have repeatedly said that the company's AI experiments were intended to supplement human writing, not replace it,” the Gizmodo Media Group Union on Twitter on Wednesday, adding that the company removed the four Español staffers’ bylines from their published articles. The employees that were laid off were not union employees.in late June it would begin testing AI-produced stories across its properties through listicles and data, expanding its approach last month to pieces in The A.V. Club and to slideshows in Jalopnik.
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