I know news media is losing money fast, but if this is the solution they go with, I think it will have the opposite effect. People who still read the news are sure as hell going to stop paying if this becomes the norm. If they think readership is declining, how is spamming a mass of AI generated junk going to help?
I don’t understand why any journalism site will advertise that they are using AI. It just says they don’t care about facts, research or quality in writing. Journalism is not simply spewing out a handful of paragraphs of text about a random subject. It is research that can take weeks or months, double checking facts, verifying sources and putting it all together into a well written article. AI texts have none of that. Quite the opposite.
As if it had the potential to be anything else.
Yeah this is all over. Here’s another one about Io9 publishing an AI article with tons of mistakes and no chance to even edit it. Not sure who thought it would be a good idea. AI can be very hit or miss on first go and needs editing before use at the very least.
Oh god, I read that article and thought “Well that’s wrong, I wonder how they could mess that up.” I saw the author was an AI and just laughed.
But they got the click in the end and I have an ad blocker so I have no idea who wins at that point.
So, basically, it’s a complete and 1:1 replacement for most regular journalism.
It’s a 1:1 replacement for the lowest effort trash written by an un- or under-paid intern, but when companies start assuming (and they will) it can take over well-researched reporting, it’ll be crud for us all.
