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

submitted 8 months ago by DolphinMath@slrpnk.net to c/technology@lemmy.world

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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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[–] milkjug@lemmy.wildfyre.dev 44 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I have not consciously clicked on any CNET content since the early 2000s. In my mind their content are mostly puff pieces without much substance. Are they even still relevant?

[–] TheControlled@lemmy.world 12 points 8 months ago

Google doesn't promote their pages until the middle or bottom of the search page which may as well be in the Mariana's trench. That's my anecdotal experience, anyway.