Brian Niemietz
new york daily news
BRIDGETON, N.J. — The Bridgeton, N.J. Police Department is asking the public to ignore it. inflammatory story about christmas day A gunfight that didn't actually happen.
“This 'article' has been circulating on social media and has been brought to the attention of BPD,” police wrote on Facebook Wednesday. “That is completely untrue. Nothing similar to this story has ever happened on or around Christmas Day, nor in recent memory in the area they describe.”
The article in question was published Monday on the site Newsbreak with the headline, “Tragedy strikes Bridgeton, N.J., on Christmas Day as gun violence rises in small town.”
The article details how “local residents” were shot several times and also indicates the exact location. He also touched on the controversial topic of gun control.
Police noted that the story lacks a byline and includes a notice that artificial intelligence tools were used to write the piece, which “may contain errors.”
According to police, this story itself is false.
“This 'news' news outlet's AI appears to be writing fiction that it is comfortable releasing to its readers,” Bridgeton police added.
NewsBreak did not respond to the Daily News' request for comment on the allegations made by authorities in southern New Jersey.The company claims that It has over 50 million users. NJ.com reported that it was unable to track down prosecutors in a seemingly fake article. incident handling.
With the rise of AI-generated stories, disinformation is spreading rapidly. The website NewsGuard has so far tracked more than 600 publishers it has identified. Providers of disinformation using AI.
These outlets operate in 15 languages and reportedly publish hundreds of articles covering politics, entertainment, travel, and technology by using bots to generate content. The number of websites sharing such information has reportedly increased by 1000% since May.
The New York Times announced Wednesday. Sue OpenAI and Microsoft In copyright infringement, their program uses millions of articles published by venerable newspapers and copies them as “Train an automated chatbot It now competes with news organizations as a trusted source of information. ”
OpenAI and Microsoft did not immediately respond to requests for comment. technology companies We have a partnership.
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