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Gizmodo<\/em> owner G\/O Media shut down and laid off editors of its Spanish-language site Gizmodo en Espa\u00f1ol<\/em> and is now using AI to translate articles.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Mat\u00edas S. Zavia, a writer at Gizmodo en Espa\u00f1ol<\/em>, posted that the publication was shut down on August 29th and that it would now publish automatically translated articles.\u00a0Gizmodo en Espa\u00f1ol<\/em> previously had a small staff who wrote original stories and created Spanish-language adaptations of pieces from the English-language Gizmodo.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n New articles posted on<\/a> Gizmodo en Espa\u00f1ol<\/em> now feature a disclaimer at the bottom in Spanish saying that its \u201ccontents have been automatically translated from the original. Due to the nuances of machine translation, there can be slight differences.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n The transition to AI translation has not been smooth, though. Readers posted on X, formerly Twitter, that some articles will start in Spanish and then suddenly change to English.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Spanish website AZ Adslzone<\/a> reported Gizmodo en Espa\u00f1ol<\/em>\u2019s team was told via video call of the decision. G\/O Media did not return a request for comment.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n News organizations have been experimenting with generative AI to help write news stories or lists as a way to pump out more content without paying more writers.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n G\/O Media began posting AI-written articles to Gizmodo <\/em>in July, but these first iterations contained factual errors<\/a>. Staffers claimed they were not told the stories would be posted until shortly before publication. Journalists at G\/O Media\u2019s different outlets expressed dismay<\/a> with the decision to publish AI-generated stories without their knowledge, and their union, GMG Union, asked readers not to click on any AI-written news. (Disclosure: GMG Union is part of the Writer\u2019s Guild of America, East; Vox Media\u2019s editorial team, which includes The Verge<\/em>, is also unionized with the Writers Guild of America, East.)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Gizmodo en Espa\u00f1ol<\/em> started after former owner, the now defunct Gawker Media, bought the site Guanabee<\/em> in 2012, Insider<\/em><\/a> reported then. The Spanish site represented the first international expansion of Gawker<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n