As Gizmodo, *Sports Illustrated* and *USA Today* have learned the hard way, AI can't write factual news pieces. But it *can* pump out bullshit written for the express purpose of drafting on the good work human journalists have done and tricking Google - the search engine 90% of us rely on - into upranking bullshit at the expense of high-quality information.
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