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This automates what has been the norm in journalism for decades. Eventually many journalists will be out of a job, since most forms of non-investigative journa
by chmod775 4y ago
This automates what has been the norm in journalism for decades.
Eventually many journalists will be out of a job, since most forms of non-investigative journalism can be done by AI.
What needs figuring out is how to properly reward those who put work into the original story.
- mcv 4y ago> Eventually many journalists will be out of a job, since most forms of non-investigative journalism can be done by AI. Or maybe we can have more and better investigative journalism. Headline shoveling has never been the most interesting aspect of journalism.
- chii 4y agoso who pays said investigative journalist's salary while they're investigating something? It's not like they can produce an investigative piece every day. I would imagine they would take months to get one piece out. And what if the investigation goes nowhere? The journalist either must take on the risk of such a piece - and not get paid if it doesn't sell, or someone must bear the risk of paying before seeing the output. Neither seems to be a good option.
- mcv 4y agoPaying for journalists is the big problem with journalism in general: how do you fund it? I think a big part of why investigative journalism is struggling is that it's too expensive. Writing some headlines for a story you copied from someone else is much cheaper. Especially when the news organisations are for-profit and any cost cut is more profit for the owners.