Red Ventures
Red Ventures is a media company in the United States that owns several outlets, such as the travel guide Lonely Planet and the technology news website CNET.
Red Ventures
| Basic information | |
|---|---|
| Founded | 1996 |
| Legal Structure | Private |
| Industry | Mass Media |
| Official website | https://www.redventures.com/ |
Incidents
AI Generated Articles (2023-2024)
"It's infuriating that Red Ventures' decisions have undermined the quality work done by CNET's writers, editors and producers" - CNET Media Workers Union via Futurism (2024)
In early 2023, several staff members clarified that CNET was incorporating AI-generated content into its articles without informing users that they were consuming content not created by humans. Many of these articles contained factual errors.[1]