Ryan said this was a poor description of the process.
He said that generally, these inaccuracies would damage people’s trust in and perception of the publication.
A spokesperson for the national science agency said the AI content had been fact-checked by a “trained science communicator and edited by the Cosmos publishing team”.
Cosmos will continue to review the use of the AI service throughout the experiment, the spokesperson said.
The magazine has drawn further criticism for using a journalism grant to develop its artificial intelligence capabilities, which could come at the expense of journalists.
Cosmos former editor Gail MacCallum told Australia’s national broadcaster ABC that while she was a “huge proponent of exploring AI”, having it create articles was “past my comfort zone”.
Another former editor, Ian Connellan, told the ABC that he had not been informed of the AI project, adding that if he had been aware of it he would have advised it was a “bad idea”.
The use of AI is becoming a major battleground for publishers and musicians.
The New York Times recently sued ChatGPT-maker OpenAI and Microsoft in a US court, alleging that the companies’ powerful AI models used millions of articles for training without permission.
The emerging AI giants are facing a wave of lawsuits over using internet content to build systems that create content on simple prompts.
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