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☆ A writer says he was laid off after a media company began using AI to translate articles: 'An AI took my job, literally'
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-08 | by ( Beatrice Nolan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

A writer and translator says he was laid off after his company, Gizmodo en Español, began using AI. The site, Gizmodo en Español, now appears to be using AI to translate articles from English to Spanish. On Tuesday they shut down @GizmodoES to turn it into a translation self-publisher (an AI took my job, literally)." They shared the memo sent to staff by Gizmodo's editorial director, which said, "Wednesday morning, G/O began publishing Gizmodo stories translated into Spanish using an automated system." This is not the first time workers have complained of being traded in for new AI tech.

Persons: Matías, Zavia, Arvind Krishna Organizations: O Media, Service, GMG Union, The Writers Guild of America, Gizmodo, Media, Companies, IBM Locations: Wall, Silicon, Spanish, East

☆ 10 ways artificial intelligence is changing the workplace, from writing performance reviews to making the 4-day workweek possible
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-27 | by ( Aaron Mok | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +13 min

Here are 10 ways AI tools such as ChatGPT have entered the workplace — and what may come out of it. Nick Patrick, the owner of the music-production company Primal Sounds Productions, told Insider he used ChatGPT to fine-tune legal contracts for clients. "You really got to find time to, like, learn this skill," Nigam previously told Insider. Companies are using AI to write their performance reviewsManagers may find writing performance reviews for their employees a tough task. He told Insider: "Any technology that increases productivity, ChatGPT included, makes a shorter workweek more feasible."

Persons: OpenAI, Nick Patrick, Shannon Ahern, hadn't, Jensen Huang, Huang, Akash Nigam, Nigam, Neil Taylor, ChatGPT, Taylor, Insider's Beatrice Nolan, Nolan, would've, Jasmine Cheng, Cheng, WorkLife, Carl Benedikt Frey, Michael Chu, iHeartMedia, Goldman Sachs, Goldman, Suumit Shah, chatbot, Anu Madgavkar, Richard Baldwin, Fran Drescher, Jezebel — Organizations: Morning, IBM, Workers, Primal Sounds Productions, Google, Twitter, Companies, Employers, Nvidia, ChatGPT, Sky News, Hulu, Spotify, Mobile, Oracle, Columbia Business School, McKinsey Global Institute, Apple, JPMorgan, Northrop Grumman, AIs, Writers Guild of America, SAG, Journalists, GMG Union of, Media Locations: Taipei, Taiwan, Oxford

☆ AI can't even tell you the chronological order of 'Star Wars' movies
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-12 | by ( Katherine Tangalakis-Lippert | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

A recent article on the "Star Wars" films had numerous errors, The Washington Post reported. The story was one of five articles published using Google's Bard and OpenAI's ChatGPT technologies as the outlet pilots new AI initiatives, a representative of Gizmodo told Insider. These will all be designed to complement our journalism and give our editorial teams new tools to serve our audiences." Gizmodo reporters weren't the only ones angered at the flub — readers, too, expressed their dissatisfaction with the AI creation. At the same time, outlets — including Insider — have announced new initiatives to experiment with AI, with editorial procedures in place meant to prevent errors from being published.

Persons: Gizmodo, James Whitbrook, George Lucas, Whitbrook, Google's Bard, Merrill Brown, Brown, Slack, Claire Lower, LifeHacker, — Brown, Jim Spanfeller, Lea Goldman —, — Organizations: Washington Post, Intelligence, GMG Union, Gizmodo, Twitter, NPR

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