Incident 455: CNET's Published AI-Written Articles Ran into Quality and Accuracy Issues

Description: AI-written articles published by CNET reportedly contained factual errors which bypassed human editorial review, prompting the company to issue corrections and updates.

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Alleged: unknown developed an AI system deployed by CNET, which harmed CNET readers.

Incident Stats

Incident ID
455
Report Count
9
Incident Date
2022-11-11
Editors
Khoa Lam

Variants

A "variant" is an incident that shares the same causative factors, produces similar harms, and involves the same intelligent systems as a known AI incident. Rather than index variants as entirely separate incidents, we list variations of incidents under the first similar incident submitted to the database. Unlike other submission types to the incident database, variants are not required to have reporting in evidence external to the Incident Database. Learn more from the research paper.