On Thursday, CNET began making layoffs to its editorial staff, just weeks after the company was exposed for using AI to produce articles without notifying readers. Some of the staff cuts include several longtime employees, according to The Verge. The layoffs total around a dozen people, a CNET staffer says, or about 10 percent of the editorial staff. In January, Futurism reported that CNET had published dozens of articles since last November that were generated using AI tools. The AI articles were full of errors and plagiarism, and readers were not informed of how they were written.

Artificial intelligence (AI) has been a scorching hot topic lately, especially since the launch of ChatGPT Nov. 30. Microsoft Bing has plans to add ChatGPT to search. Some have questioned whether it's a Google killer. Bankrate is the latest example. It is having some of its content written by machines but reviewed by human editors.

Jordan French is a multi-media journalist on the editorial staff at TheStreet.com He is also the Founder and Executive Editor at Grit Daily News. Formerly an engineer and attorney he represented the "People of the United States" in energy market manipulation cases as an enforcement attorney at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. As an engineer he worked on the Mars Gravity Biosatellite Program and later co-founded BeeHex, Inc., the personalized nutrition and robotics company that popularized 3D-printed pizza. The author of forthcoming book, The Gritty Entrepreneur, he is a frequent public speaker, technology evangelist and media moderator.

This story and its headline have been updated. Forbes is investing in tools to make its newsroom more bionic. Over the summer, the business publisher, which just had its most profitable year in more than a decade, rolled out a new CMS, called Bertie, which recommends article topics for contributors based on their previous output, headlines based on the sentiment of their pieces and images too. It's also testing a tool that writes rough versions of articles that contributors can simply polish up, rather than having to write a full story from scratch. The CMS is currently available to Forbes' editorial staff and senior contributors in North America, and will be rolled out to all of its contributors in North America and Europe in the first quarter of 2019.

Forbes has dangled various carrots in front of its contributors to get them to post more. An artificial intelligence tool that writes a rough draft for them. Over the summer, the business publisher, which just had its most profitable year in more than a decade, rolled out a new CMS, called Bertie, which recommends article topics for contributors based on their previous output. Now it's going one step further, testing a tool that writes rough versions of articles that contributors can simply polish up, rather than having to write a full story from scratch. The tool is currently available to Forbes' editorial staff and senior contributors in North America, and will be rolled out to all of its contributors in North America and Europe in the first quarter of 2019.