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Wired Declares 47% of Medium Content as AI Slop
Tony says publication editors are handling it
Last month, the tech journal Wired reported that they had employed an AI detection company to ascertain whether their suspicion that 40% of Medium content is AI-generated is accurate.
The AI detection company, Pangram Labs, ātook a sampling of 274,466 recent posts over a six-week period and estimated that over 47 percent were likely AI-generated,ā said Wired.
This may not surprise those people whoāve been battling with AI-generated responses in their commentsāmore than real humans. But the stories these bots create are suppressed by Mediumās algorithm, says Mediumās CEO Tony Stubblebine, even if the spam comments are very much present and visible.
Tony told the reporter: āMedium basically runs on human curation now.ā He cited 9,000 editors of Mediumās publications, implying they were keeping a lid on AI in their publications. Some are. Some are not. Medium hasnāt actually banned AI, but they have said it must not be paywalled.
Tony also cited the curators involved in the boost program as gatekeepers, separating AI-generated content from human-created quality content.
A second AI detection company was tasked by Wired to run a check of their own. Originality AIā¦