Gizmodo AI generates error-strewn Star Wars article

An AI-generated story listing Star Wars movies and shows by technology news website Gizmodo was discovered to be littered with errors.

'A Chronological List of Star Wars Movies & TV Shows', which was published in the name of 'Gizmodo Bot', showed the titles in a numbered list, rather than chronologically, and failed to include several TV shows.

The finding raised doubts about the accuracy and reliability of its generative AI systems and concerns about the intentions of the publication's owners G/O Media. 

Gizmodo deputy director James Whitbrook complained he had only been informed of the article 10 minutes before its publication, and that no humans had been involved in its production or editing.

He went on to blast G/O Media for publishing a 'shoddily written' article 'riddled with basic errors' that is 'embarrassing, unpublishable, disrespectful of both the audience and the people who work here, and a blow to our authority and integrity.'

G/O Media's editorial policy explicitly bans 'Plagiarism and fabulism'.