In the wave of AI controversies and lawsuits, CNET has been publicly admonished since it first started posting thinly-veiled AI-generated content on its site in late 2022— a scandal that has culminated in the site being demoted from Trusted to Untrusted Sources on Wikipedia.
Considering that CNET has been in the business since 1994 and maintained a top-tier reputation on Wikipedia up until late 2020, this change came after lots of debate between Wikipedia’s editors and has drawn the attention of many in the media, including some CNET staff members.
With whom did CNET maintain a top tier reputation until 2020? It’s been a shell of itself for well over a decade at this point. That they’ve gone to full throated AI content seems to me the corpse standing up and shuffling around as a zombie.
They were still doing some decent journalism here and there, but yeah, it’s been getting worse and worse very steadily.
Been going downhill since the death of James Kim in 2006.
As an Oregonian, I remember that story almost 20 years later. “Tragedy” is an overused word, but not for that poor man.
From the TechTV days. RIP James.
Yeah, if it was a “reputable source” ten years ago someone dropped the ball.
Lets you know the people writing these pieces are way out of touch.