Update 3/28/2023: An updated version of this list can be found in AI Controversies under Projects.
As a librarian in higher education who works in scholarly communication I’ve been watching the increasing use of ChatGPT in both journalism and in the creation of papers and research. Below is a list of articles on the topic from the last three months that highlights some of the concerns. If you’ve come across other articles (in any language) pop them in the comments. I’d love to keep the list going as a resource for anyone whose organization is toying with the idea of using AI to generate content.
- 3/23/2023 – Professors published a paper on AI with a ‘plot twist’ — ChatGPT wrote it by Daniel Wu, Washington Post
- 3/22/2023 – Google’s Hot New Bard AI Is Already Spouting Ridiculous Conspiracy Theories by Maggie Harrison, Futurism
- 3/22/2023 – Google and Microsoft’s chatbots are already citing one another in a misinformation shitshow by James Vincent, The Verge
- 3/21/2023 – Researchers Reveal that Paper About Academic Cheating was Generated Using ChatGPT by Maggie Harrison, The Byte, Futurism
- 3/12/2023 – ChatGPT can make real-seeming fake data by Ellen Phiddian, Cosmos Magazine
- 3/9/2023 – ChatGPT and Fake Citations by Aaron Wellborn, Duke University Libraries
- 3/7/2023 – Why ChatGPT In Healthcare Could Be a Huge Liability, Per One AI Expert by Katie Adams, MedCity News
- 3/2/2023 – We Asked ChatGPT About Art Theory. It Led Us Down a Rabbit Hole So Perplexing We Had to Ask Hal Foster for a Reality Check by Ben Davis, Artnet News
- 3/2/2023 – CNET is doing big layoffs just weeks after AI-generated stories came to light by Mia Sato, The Verge
- 3/2/2023 – CNET Hits Staff With Layoffs After Disastrous Pivot to AI Journalism by Noor Al-Sibai and Jon Christian, Futurism
- 2/28/2023 – ChatGPT’s inaccuracies are causing real harm by Jeremy Kahn, Fortune
- 2/23/2023 – Fake News? ChatGPT Has a Knack for Making Up Phony Anonymous Sources by Chris Glorioso, Channel 4 New York News (NBC)
- 2/19/2023 – Artificial Hallucinations in ChatGPT: Implications in Scientific Writing, Hussam Alkaissi and Samy I. McFarlane, Cureus
- 2/9/2023 – Magazine Publishes Serious Errors in First AI-generated Health Article by Jon Christian, Futurism
- 2/8/2023 – Google Issues Warning About AI-Generated Content About Health and Finance by Maggie Harrison, Futurism
- 2/1/2023 – Non-Human is Not Neutral: The Ethics of ChatGPT by Madden Armstrong, The Spectator (Seattle University)
- 1/25/2023 – CNET found errors in more than half of its AI-written stories by Mia Sato and Emma Roth, The Verge
- 1/23/2023 – CNET’s AI Journalist Appears to Have Committed Extensive Plagiarism by Jon Christian, Futurism
- 1/20/2023 – CNET and Bankrate Say They’re Pausing AI-Generated Articles Until Negative Headlines Stop by Jon Christian, Futurism
- 1/20/2023 – Artificial Intelligence and the Research Paper: A Librarian’s Perspective by Jonathan McMichael, Southern Methodist University Libraries
- 1/19/2023 – Inside CNET’s AI-powered SEO money machine by Mia Sato and James Vincent, The Verge
- 1/18/2023 – CNET is reviewing its AI-written articles after being notified of serious errors by Mariella Moon, Engadget
- 1/17/2023 – CNET’s Article-Writing AI Is Already Publishing Very Dumb Errors by Jon Christian, Futurism
- 1/12/2023 – Internet Horrified by CNET Secretively Publishing Articles Written by an AI by Frank Landymore, Futurism