A late entry in the contest for Ironic Headline of the Week showed up at Fox News a couple of days ago. The title of the article gets right to the gist of the matter. “Newspaper runs robot-written op-ed opposing AI in journalism.” Fox News claims that the article was published in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and the op-ed was written entirely by Microsoft’s Bing Chat AI system. (See the disclaimer at the end of this piece to see why I used the word “claims.”) It sounded like an interesting experiment and the excerpts from the op-ed provided in the linked article certainly could have passed for an opinion piece written by a human being. So could Bing Chat be arguing itself out of a job? Let’s find out.Read More
AI writes op-ed opposing AI
