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submitted 1 year ago by dirtmayor@beehaw.org to c/gaming@beehaw.org

According to their website, Publications owned by GAMURS Group include:

Destructoid

The Escapist

Siliconera

Twinfinite

Dot Esports

Upcomer

Gamepur

Prima Games

PC Invasion

Attack of the Fanboy

Touch, Tap, Play

Pro Game Guides

Gamer Journalist

Operation Sports

GameSkinny

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[-] GolGolarion@pathfinder.social 5 points 1 year ago

So... these sites are all just random text generators now? What's the point?

[-] pgetsos@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

Cheaper to produce clickbaity articles. Most of these websites are already just trash "articles" made for clicks

[-] PickTheStick@lemmy.fmhy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

They just want to capture the person coming in off of a search platform looking for something in a game. It's all about the clicks.

I was curious about some stuff in Elden Ring, and every search I did had shitty, obviously SE optimized bullshit for at least the first 10-15 results. Well fuck that, I'll just read the also bullshit SE optimized wiki because I can at least keep the adblockers on and the scripts off and wade through the crap.

[-] grizzzlay@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago

It was inevitable that someone would try to use AI like this to make certain jobs obsolete. Sites with content like this will manipulate Google's already garbage algorithms to make it a self-consuming snake.

The only way out is to continue to encourage thoughtful discussions from thoughtful articles. AI could certainly help with information, but perspective and insight is an inherently human trait that will tune people out.

[-] oaklandnative@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

And I just unsubscribed from the Escapist and Destructoid RSS feeds. What a bummer. Thanks for the heads up!

[-] ILeftReddit@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

Eh, not as big of a deal as people think. You've probably already read lots of AI generated content without even realising it

[-] ZILtoid1991@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

I often do notice it, although I sometimes wonder if people might be this stupid in real life or not.

[-] ILeftReddit@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

Fair, but how about the stuff you didn't notice? You'd never know. College professors are being tricked everyday.

[-] niisyth@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

Kinda hard to prove a negative, right?

How would you know if you didn't notice? Could be dozens but could just as well be 0.

[-] PenguinTD@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago

good luck with that, I think after a bit of time us gaming community needs our own domain white/blacklist just so we can filter our search result to the more writer/contributor friendly sites.

[-] PickTheStick@lemmy.fmhy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Just about every area of interest already needs one. Every topic I've wondered about in the past several years and looked for with a search engine has horrible articles that have been SEOed to death, and it is going to get worse with AI being able to generate the bulk of the article now.

[-] OrangeCorvus@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

I hope the new EU legislation regarding AI also covers this type of things.

[-] ozoned@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

More help from companies on letting me know the websites to stay away from. This isn't the first time DToid did stupid crap. Back on Justin.tv, maybe they had converted to Twitch already, they had a BUNCH of streamers that were ruling the platform, then they said that their streamers would have to review and give positive reviews of sponsored games. All the streamers left the group and Dtoid lost a TON of traction and Twitch exploded from Justin.TV.

[-] Liontigerwings@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

Someone correct me if I am wrong but ai editor implies the writer will remain and they're using ai ton "fix" the article and write the headline. Isn't that one of the main responsibilities of an editor?

[-] cyd@vlemmy.net 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I think it's the other way round. AI writes, the human editor touches things up a little, and together they poop out hundreds of low effort articles a week.

[-] 4815162342@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
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