Welcome to Source Notes, a Future Tense column about the internet's information ecosystem. Five years ago, I traveled to Stockholm to cover the annual convention for Wikipedia and related free knowledge projects. But it was not just wiki-interviews and chewy candy fish that occupied my time among the Swedes. During one fun evening, I came across a group playing a tabletop game envisioning what Wikipedia would be like in 2035. This futuristic Dungeons & Dragons-style role-playing game featured a cast of diverse characters like Yuki, an A.I. pop music composer and Wikipedia writer, and Levi, a passionate neo-Luddite who believed Wikipedia should be composed by humans only.

CNET is far from the first; the Associated Press has been using AI to automatically write thousands of earnings reports since 2015. Next time you're on your favorite news site, you might want to double check the byline to see if it was written by an actual human. CNET, a massively popular tech news outlet, has been quietly employing the help of "automation technology" -- a stylistic euphemism for AI -- on a new wave of financial explainer articles, seemingly starting around November of last year. In the absence of any formal announcement or coverage, it appears that this was first spotted by online marketer Gael Breton in a tweet on Wednesday. The articles are published under the unassuming appellation of "CNET Money Staff," and encompass topics like "Should You Break an Early CD for a Better Rate?" or "What is Zelle and How Does It Work?"

It's hard to imagine that the idea of an artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot was nothing more than straight from a science fiction movie a few years ago. But now that OpenAI ChatGPT has gained popularity, people realise the amazing possibilities of these intelligent technologies. Writers, traders, scientists, programmers, and even travellers are all experimenting with ChatGPT, which has fast gained popularity. The AI chatbot is proven to be a tool for anyone wanting to increase their creativity and productivity, from creating original material to offering insightful analysis and forecasts. Even if you're not interested in artificial intelligence, you should pay attention to ChatGPT, a new AI bot in business.

CNET reporter Jackson Ryan published an article last month describing how ChatGPT, an AI that can generate human-sounding text, would affect journalists and the news industry: "ChatGPT Is a Stunning AI, but Human Jobs Are Safe (for Now)." "It definitely can't do the job of a journalist," Ryan wrote of ChatGPT. "To say so diminishes the act of journalism itself." The article said AI isn't coming for journalists' jobs just yet, but the very publication that ran Ryan's article has been quietly publishing articles written by AI since November, according to Futurism and online marketer Gael Breton. The AI-written CNET articles bear the byline CNET Money Staff which is identified on the outlet's website as "AI Content published under this author byline is generated using automation technology." CNET did not immediately respond to Gizmodo's request for comment.

J.K. Rowling worries that women are being erased due to transgender policies; reaction from Fox Nation host Tammy Bruce. Gamers, journalists and influencers argued over whether to buy a highly anticipated "Harry Potter" themed video game online. "Hogwarts Legacy," an action role-playing game set in the "Harry Potter" universe, is one of the most anticipated games of the year. Preorders for it have shot up, making it the top-selling game on download platform Steam. But some pundits asked what the political implications of buying the game would be, accusing author J.K. Rowling of being "transphobic."

When Apple quietly launched a catalog of A.I.-narrated audiobooks early in January, it was surprising news, and it wasn't. Robot narrators are not new: Alexa provides text-to-speech for Kindle content and Google offers a suite of artificial voices of various genders and accents for those wishing to publish "auto-narrated" audiobooks. The difference is that Apple's four voices--"Madison" and "Jackson" suggested for fiction, "Helena" and "Mitchell" for nonfiction--sound much more natural than the digitally-generated voices available elsewhere, leading to fears that they could replace human narrators altogether. A few of Apple's voices are even noticeably similar to the voices of well-known members of the community of human audiobook narrators. "There's a little tension there," Edoardo Ballerini told me.

Elon Musk was in the news warning about the dangers of Artificial Intelligence and saying we need to keep a close eye on what is being done in this field. Not long ago, Professor Stephen Hawking made similar warnings. But, is AI something we should fear? As technology advances, more and more things are becoming possible. There's still debate on what is good and bad.

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An artist was banned from a popular Reddit art community based on accusations that his artwork was an AI-generated design -- or looked too much like one. Ben Moran, an artist based in Vietnam, posted an image of his work "A Muse in Warzone" (2022), which he says was created using Photoshop, on r/Art, a subreddit with nearly 22 million members. The piece depicts Elaine, the protagonist of the Beneath the Dragoneye Moons fantasy series. Shortly after, the image was flagged by r/Art's moderators, and Moran sent a complaint, offering to provide the original .PSD file of the artwork for review. "I'm not using any AI supported [sic] and the punishment is not right," Moran said.