Incident #562·Misinformation

Uptick in Low-Quality AI-Produced Content Degraded Publishers' Submission Management

November 30, 20221 reportsView on AIID

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.

Actors

Alleged Deployers

openai

Alleged Developers

openai

Harmed Parties

publishing-editors
publishers

Classification

Risk Domain

Misinformation

Risk Subdomain

3.2. Pollution of information ecosystem and loss of consensus reality

MIT Risk Profile

HumanIntentionalPost-deployment

Source

Databaseaiid

LicenseCC BY-SA 4.0

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Source Reports(1 total)

AI Junk Is Starting to Pollute the Internet

wsj.com· Jul 2023