Incident 562: Uptick in Low-Quality AI-Produced Content Degraded Publishers' Submission Management
Description: A surge in low-standard AI-generated content such as by ChatGPT was reported by publishers, which negatively impacted submission management process and editors' workflow.
Entities
View all entitiesAlleged: OpenAI developed and deployed an AI system, which harmed publishing editors and publishers.
Incident Stats
Incident ID
562
Report Count
1
Incident Date
2022-11-30
Editors
Khoa Lam
Incident Reports
Reports Timeline
wsj.com · 2023
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When she first heard of the humanlike language skills of the artificial-intelligence bot ChatGPT, Jennifer Stevens wondered what it would mean for the retirement magazine she edits.
Months later, she has a better idea. It means she is spen…
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.