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AI-generated content and other unfavorable practices have put longtime staple CNET on Wikipedia's blacklisted sources

www.tomshardware.com AI-generated content and other unfavorable practices have put longtime staple CNET on Wikipedia's blacklisted sources

Average readers aren't the only ones tired of sorting through AI "work"— Wikipedia editors have had it, too.

AI-generated content and other unfavorable practices have put longtime staple CNET on Wikipedia's blacklisted sources

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.

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