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"Last year both
Gannett and
Sports Illustrated were caught creating fake,
“AI” generated journalists to create fake, plagiarism and mistake-prone
“journalism.” In both instances the kind of brunchlord executives that fail
upward at these kind of dying media companies thought it would be great to
replace real human journalism with automated junk — without
informing their
actual human employees.
“AI” (not quite yet fully cooked language learning models) certainly have
useful applications in journalism ranging from digging through court records to
editing and transcription. But most tech and media execs instead see the tech
primarily as a way to cut corners, undermine already underpaid labor, and
create an automated and entirely mindless, low quality ad-engagement ouroboros
that effectively shits money.
As it turns out, they’re having quite a bit of success."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
