Full Disclosure: AI Content on Canon Rumors

[Canon Rumors]

Hello

I think I may need to address AI accusations about content this site. It did lead to a ban last week because of punctuation.

Different English speaking countries tend to have their own nuances. The way something is written in the UK or Australia can be a lot different than Canadian or American English.

Google down ranks more and more AI content with every HCU. Web sites and livlihoods have been destroyed overnight in some cases.​

Full Disclosure about AI use on Canon Rumors​

1. Google Gemini is used at times to generate the backgrounds of header images. (I have meant to ask how that should be sourced)
2. Google Gemini is sometimes used to get headline suggestions when mine are too long.
3. Google Gemini is sometimes used when a sentence or paragraph structure doesn't flow properly. Once I/we get some suggestions that are better, we'll use that as a template by using our own language. I am not a "journalist", "author" or "writer".
4. Grammar and spellcheck are done by Microsoft Word in my case.
5. There is nothing content wise that is AI generated that I know of.
6. We use a custom built meta-analysis tool to detect AI, as there are always outliers. There isn't a lone tool online that is accurate above about 70% that we have ever found.

If you do suspect AI content, please don't put it in the corresponding thread and PM any article thread starter directly. We don't want it, you don't want it.​

We had a direct discussion about Heidi as well, and we're looking at evolving how she writes. I do believe you can guide an "employee" with further training, discussion and honesty. If it continues to not work out, then the solution is a permanent one.


Cheers,
Craig

 

[Jethro]

"5. There is nothing content wise that is AI generated that I know of."

Speaking personally - that's the only one I'm interested in.

 

[Stig Nygaard]

1. Google Gemini is used at times to generate the backgrounds of header images. (I have meant to ask how that should be sourced)
2. Google Gemini is sometimes used to get headline suggestions when mine are too long.
3. Google Gemini is sometimes used when a sentence or paragraph structure doesn't flow properly. Once I/we get some suggestions that are better, we'll use that as a template by using our own language. I am not a "journalist", "author" or "writer".
4. Grammar and spellcheck are done by Microsoft Word in my case.
5. There is nothing content wise that is AI generated that I know of.
6. We use a custom built meta-analysis tool to detect AI, as there are always outliers. There isn't a lone tool online that is accurate above about 70% that we have ever found.

I'm also mostly concerned about 5, and it's good to hear you don't want AI generated content.
But now you mention the background header images (1), I have to say the give they site a very cliché or bad-taste look in my opinion (it was much worse a week or two ago than it is today, though).
But, still... The actual content is of course the most important