The Washington Post's new-ish CEO has announced that the newspaper will be pivoting to artificial intelligence to turn sales around.
  • queermunist she/her@lemmy.ml
    39·
    6 months ago

    A ton of companies are going to destroy their own products by replacing workers with AI and it’s extremely funny to watch.

    • jonne@infosec.pub
      6·
      6 months ago

      Yep, using AI for news is basically using the work of other human journalists. There’s only a limited amount AI could do by itself (weather reports, short sports blurbs, stenographing police/IDF press conferences…), so they’re just going to turn WaPo into more of an aggregator while other outlets produce the real news.

      At that stage, why even pay for their product then?

  • Toneswirly@lemmy.world
    16·
    6 months ago

    The written word isnt worth jack shit anymore; the eyeballs just arent there any more. Companies see a way out through nascent AI which has peaked already at “garbage fire” and now a whole generation of Journos are gonna have to pivot to Tik Tok dancing to earn a living.

    What a time to be alive

  • happybadger [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    15·
    6 months ago

    Every AI article is completely flat in terms of quality. If I ask the horny minotaur AI what’s going on in Iran, I trust the gibberish it hallucinates as much as I would the gibberish the Washington Post bot would hallucinate. Even with human editorial oversight it would only be as good as any of the other shit they publish, but the whole content is indistinguishable from an autogenerated spam blog.

  • Nobody@lemmy.worldEnglish
    8·
    6 months ago

    Good thing Amazon bought WaPo to protect journalism from the predatory practices of capitalism. Surely, that was their only motive.