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> How is doing original work writing about how much "scientists" are stunned by each natural phenomenon or each trivia found in their job? <…> a bot browsing th
by anileated 4y ago
> How is doing original work writing about how much "scientists" are stunned by each natural phenomenon or each trivia found in their job? <…> a bot browsing three thousand scientific journals in minutes and then writing a resume "in the style of BBC news" and other "in the style of Fox news", etc, could do a much better job.
A human, in your view (which not everyone shares), has done a bad job in this particular case, but a bot would be liable to the same faults simply because it’s trained on results of human work. So no, it wouldn’t automatically raise the quality of headlines, but it would save money for the company in near term while making the already underpaid writers unemployed. I’m not sure I see a net positive.
Here’s a hint: to get better writing, instead of “fire writers and have chatbot do it” try “pay writers more”. If there’s no one practicing and perfecting the art of original writing then its quality can only go downhill, and since chatbot is trained on human writing you can see there’s a vicious circle that gets us nowhere good.
- pvaldes 4y agoIs not just one journalist. Mocking the scientist Is a school of writing, is pandemic. > “pay writers more”. Why? Being cynical, the authors of the article gave it for free. Why the journalist should be paid for just making a resume of it and maybe copypasting some photos and graphs done in weeks by other people? what qualifies him/her to earn more money than the real scientist while doing 0.00001% of the effort? The sad truth is that people don't care about science, they want to be entertained and have their points of view reinforced. You write a stupid song?, you are paid for the rest of your life. You discover a new species?, you end losing money.