![]() In an email to the Guardian, Famadillo rejected claims it used AI to generate content highlighted in the NewsGuard report. Perhaps it’s perfectly designed for a true dilettante – the kind of person who’d read a review of Play-Doh’s Super Stretchy Green Slime immediately after a piece tackling the thorny question “Are baby potatoes regular potatoes?” The reviews themselves are sensible enough, but navigating the site is virtually impossible. This immaculately curated site is laser-focused on stress-release tablets, RVing tips, Mother’s Day T-shirts and the “top” sites in Santa Fe. I found myself wondering how we can trust anything on the internet if it’s already so difficult to tell when AI is involved.įinally, I visited for product reviews. Many of the pieces on the site felt too oddly worded to be ChatGPT, but there was so much repeated information that it also felt like it couldn’t be written by humans. In an email, Niraj Kumar, identified on the site as its founder, rejected claims the site used AI, calling the material “purely genuine”. ![]() His 3 September birthday presumably explains why “every September, Alsina has a birthday party on September 3”. The first article was about the musician August Alsina, who, I learned, was born on 3 September 1992 “at the age of 30”. Once I’d had enough of dead celebrities, I headed to, which provides juicy insider information on stars who are still breathing, as well as, for some reason, tech tips. (The piece must have referred to Yang Bing-yi, who founded a celebrated Taiwanese chain.) A Guardian email to the address listed on the site was immediately returned with an error message.Ī story on the death of a dumpling tycoon failed to mention his name. did not deem it necessary to provide the name of the founder of the “colossal global dumpling franchise”, even though the 96-year-old’s “demise” was widely mourned. I also learned that a “dumpling empire founder” died on 26 March, which was impressive information given that the article claimed to have been posted on 26 February. Fortunately, the shortage of deaths in those months was balanced by individuals’ repeated deaths in March: the last surviving Czech second world war RAF pilot, for instance, apparently died on both the 25th and the 26th. Other than the Biden snafu, the deaths that I factchecked had actually occurred, though they appear to have stopped in March: links to deaths in April and May didn’t work. Once I’d gotten into enough knowledge, I visited, which earnestly describes itself as “news on famous figures who have died” – a refreshing change from outlets like Us Weekly that insist on covering figures who are still alive. (The site did not immediately reply to emails from the Guardian.) ![]() These pieces certainly read like the work of AI, and a person who identified himself to NewsGuard as the site’s founder said the site used “automation at some points where they are extremely needed”. But there are glimpses of true humanity: for instance, the piece on grass-eating dogs refers to them as our “furry friends” six times. They’re ordered like presentations, with an outline at the top and paragraphs arranged by number. That was the case with the articles themselves. I started to wonder if the language was too odd to be the work of ChatGPT, which tends to be readable, if boring. ![]() A piece on whether oceans freeze was based on “Massive science”, and the site dares to ask questions such as “why is the Sky Blue but the Space black?” and the even more poetic “Does the gravity of Mars the same as Earth’s?”, something I’ve often wondered. One category was “amazing reasons behind”: for instance, a lengthy article on “Why do dogs eat grass? – amazing reasons behind” and “Why is yawning contagious? – 10 Amazing Science Facts behind”. The headlines seemed like the work of translation software. ![]()
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