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AI Slop Is Flooding Medium

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AI Slop Is Flooding Medium

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Technology@beehaw.orgEnglish · 2 months ago

The blogging platform Medium is facing an influx of AI-generated content. CEO Tony Stubblebine says it “doesn’t matter” as long as nobody reads it.

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Earlier this year, WIRED asked AI detection startup Pangram Labs to analyze Medium. It took a sampling of 274,466 recent posts over a six week period and estimated that over 47 percent were likely AI-generated. “This is a couple orders of magnitude more than what I see on the rest of the internet,” says Pangram CEO Max Spero. (The company’s analysis of one day of global news sites this summer found 7 percent as likely AI-generated.)

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In 2018, 3.4 percent were estimated as likely AI-generated.

For 2024, with a sampling of 473 articles published this year, it suspected that just over 40 percent were likely AI-generated.

My numbers were from the Originality AI part.
- Dr. Juande Santander-Vela@astrodon.social
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  @Black616Angel yes, I’ve realized that and corrected my post while you responded 😉
  
  Maybe the blurb was AI-generated? 🤦🏻‍♂️

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