AI Content Generation Stories
8 disasters tagged #ai-content-generation
Deloitte to refund Australian government after AI-generated report
Deloitte admitted AI-generated errors in a commissioned Australian government report and agreed to refund the fee.
Anthropic agrees to $1.5B payout over pirated books
Anthropic accepted a $1.5 billion settlement with authors who said the Claude team scraped pirate e-book sites to train its chatbot. The deal pays roughly $3,000 per book across 500,000 works, heads off a December trial, and forces one of the richest AI startups to bankroll the writing community it previously treated as free training data.
AI-generated npm pkg stole Solana wallets
Threat actors pushed an AI-generated npm package that acted as a wallet drainer, emptying Solana users’ funds.
Syndicated AI book list ran in major papers with made-up titles
A King Features syndicated summer reading list used AI and included nonexistent books. It appeared in the Chicago Sun-Times and one edition of the Philadelphia Inquirer before corrections and apologies.
Sports Illustrated: Fake-Looking Authors and AI Content Backlash
Sports Illustrated faced criticism after product review articles appeared under profiles with AI-looking headshots and shifting bylines; content was removed and a partner relationship ended.
Microsoft’s AI poll on woman’s death sparks outrage
Microsoft Start auto-attached an AI ‘Insights’ poll speculating on a woman’s death beside a Guardian story.
Gannett pauses AI sports recaps after mockery
Gannett halted Lede AI high-school recaps after robotic, error-prone stories went viral.
CNET mass-corrects AI-written finance explainers
CNET paused and reviewed AI-generated money articles after multiple factual errors were found.