Noticed this on CareerBeacon, an Atlantic Canadian job posting site for public and private sector listings:
“Disclaimer: Please note that the job posting you are about to read has been automatically generated by OpenAI based on a brief description sourced from the Job Bank.”
Whether you have issues, enthusiasm, or indifference toward artificial intelligence and language models, we’re once again left wondering how information moves around the internet and who’s curating or proofreading what we read in the first place.
Is it about authorship? Legal protection? Or just a byproduct of formatting differences after vacuuming a listing from one database to another? Does it actually clarify who’s responsible for the content or is it just another reminder about trust and media literacy and the growing need for each of us to always take that extra step to find and check for the original source.
Sometimes that means following a couple of confusing or broken links through abandoned sites, using traditional web search to double check that something is what it claims to be, or playing catch-up with the evolution of technology ourselves and run our own prompts, ask better and tougher questions, and constantly check our own assumptions and results along the way.
Also memes deserve attribution too:
Image alt text: A popular stock photo meme referred to as "Distracted Boyfriend" shows a man walking with his girlfriend but turning his head to look at another woman passing by. In this version, the man is labelled “JOB SEEKER,” the woman he’s turning to look at is labelled with the Government of Canada wordmark representing the job bank, and his girlfriend is labelled with the CareerBeacon logo.