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Not if creators are paid nothing for their work. I think inescapably, the profession of writing is about to take a big hit from GPT-X, with the few remaining j

Not if creators are paid nothing for their work. I think inescapably, the profession of writing is about to take a big hit from GPT-X, with the few remaining journalists paid considerably less than before. There will be an exodus of talent, leaving... Microsoft and Google to write our news for us?

zirgs 4y ago
If you just copy and paste from Reuters then you're not a real journalist. ChatGPT can't travel to a war zone to find out what's going on there. So real journalists aren't going anywhere.
- rchaud 4y ago
  No journalist has a job where they spend all day copy/pasting AP/Reuters. This is a simplistic dismissal of the nature of working in a news organization. It would be akin to me saying that using code from a Stack Overflow response makes one 'not a real developer'.
  - nickelcitymario 4y ago
    Agreed, but only because I assume they’ve automated it. Most small town papers are filled with verbatim Reuters reports.
    - tablespoon 4y ago
      > Most small town papers are filled with verbatim Reuters reports. Not exactly. It's mostly AP reports, not Reuters, covering stuff from outside that small paper's area. If there's a flood of national interest in that small town, it's probably one of the reporters from that paper that will write the national wire story. That's kind of the point of the Associated Press, lots of small local organizations banding together to offer comprehensive local/national/international coverage. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Associated_Press https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Associated_Press: > Many newspapers and broadcasters outside the United States are AP subscribers, paying a fee to use AP material without being contributing members of the cooperative. As part of their cooperative agreement with the AP, most member news organizations grant automatic permission for the AP to distribute their local news reports. The AP traditionally employed the "inverted pyramid" formula for writing, a method that enables news outlets to edit a story to fit its available publication area without losing the story's essentials, although in 2007, then-AP President Tom Curley called the practice "dead".[6]
- chii 4y ago
  > So real journalists aren't going anywhere. and there aren't very many of these kinds of journalists (let's call them "correspondents" to differentiate). The journalists copy/pasting from Reuters, or the ones that paraphrase a press release, is going to go the way of automation, but i suspect that this amount of jobs is still quite large today, but will disappear relatively soon.

zirgs 4y ago

If you just copy and paste from Reuters then you're not a real journalist. ChatGPT can't travel to a war zone to find out what's going on there. So real journalists aren't going anywhere.

rchaud 4y ago
No journalist has a job where they spend all day copy/pasting AP/Reuters. This is a simplistic dismissal of the nature of working in a news organization. It would be akin to me saying that using code from a Stack Overflow response makes one 'not a real developer'.
- nickelcitymario 4y ago
  Agreed, but only because I assume they’ve automated it. Most small town papers are filled with verbatim Reuters reports.
  - tablespoon 4y ago
    > Most small town papers are filled with verbatim Reuters reports. Not exactly. It's mostly AP reports, not Reuters, covering stuff from outside that small paper's area. If there's a flood of national interest in that small town, it's probably one of the reporters from that paper that will write the national wire story. That's kind of the point of the Associated Press, lots of small local organizations banding together to offer comprehensive local/national/international coverage. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Associated_Press https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Associated_Press: > Many newspapers and broadcasters outside the United States are AP subscribers, paying a fee to use AP material without being contributing members of the cooperative. As part of their cooperative agreement with the AP, most member news organizations grant automatic permission for the AP to distribute their local news reports. The AP traditionally employed the "inverted pyramid" formula for writing, a method that enables news outlets to edit a story to fit its available publication area without losing the story's essentials, although in 2007, then-AP President Tom Curley called the practice "dead".[6]
chii 4y ago
> So real journalists aren't going anywhere. and there aren't very many of these kinds of journalists (let's call them "correspondents" to differentiate). The journalists copy/pasting from Reuters, or the ones that paraphrase a press release, is going to go the way of automation, but i suspect that this amount of jobs is still quite large today, but will disappear relatively soon.