"In the latest sign of the times, the Economic Times - the second most widely-read English-language newspaper in the world, as of 2012 - picked the word "Kafkaesque" as its "Word of the Day " earlier this week. But even the briefest glance at the accompanying illustration reveals that the piece involved little, if any, human oversight. The issue is the image at the top of the piece - which, to be fair, is labeled as being AI-generated - that attempts to write the word on a blackboard."
"A quick perusal of the paper's deluge of "Word of the Day" features - it seems to publish far more than one per day, running three on the day of its "Kafkaesliue" flub alone - suggests that the AI error isn't a one off. A write-up about the word "pensive," for instance, features an image showing a coffee cup labeled "celffee.""
Generative AI produced an AI-labeled illustration for a prominent English-language newspaper's "Word of the Day" feature that misspelled "Kafkaesque" as "Kafkaesliue." The image's mangled spelling and visual errors point to minimal human oversight, yet the newspaper left the butchered image live while readers mocked the mistake. Additional instances include a "pensive" entry with a coffee cup labeled "celffee." The frequency of such posts suggests recurring AI failures. Newsrooms and media executives are preparing for disruption as bottom-tier AI-generated content depresses web traffic and forces publishers to rethink operations.
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