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Most of these types of outlets are doomed by the dawn of language models, but it’s all our jobs that they keep saying are at risk.
by kordlessagain 4y ago
Most of these types of outlets are doomed by the dawn of language models, but it’s all our jobs that they keep saying are at risk.
- yreg 4y agoPrimary sources (like on the ground war reporting) are not replaceable by LLMs.
- coldtea 4y agoIf LLMs reduce the "middle class able to support news websites via its ad spending" enough, sending these people in despair and/or lower paying jobs, they willl indirectly remove the support for such reporting anyway.
- yamtaddle 4y agoLocal reporting is the most important, as far as what people reading/seeing/hearing it can meaningfully act on, and it's already all but dead thanks to the Internet and smartphones making competition for attention a global enterprise 24/7/365 no matter where a person is.
- smt88 4y agoIf no one can tell the difference, how would we know?
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- yreg 4y agoThe honest AI-only papers will admit they are not the primary source on the ground. As for the dishonest ones, it's not a new problem (only the scale will be new), since fake news are widespread already. The society combats it by a reputation system. I take a BBC war correspondent seriously, but a random military-blogger I never heard of I take less seriously.
- ekianjo 4y agoThese outlets were at risk in the first place by not doing their jobs.
- redeux 4y agoI’m assuming that you’re implying that their job is hard news, but you’re hard pressed to find any hard news organizations any more. The AP survives because they sell to other news outlets. Other hard news outlets seem to survive on donations and government funding.
- ekianjo 4y agomost publications are just writing opinions these days, and almost none of them know what "investigative journalism" actually means anymore as most of their staff spends time on Twitter to spit bullshit day and night. They were dead 10 years ago already.
- CM30 4y agoThis. Proper investigative journalism is the only kind of reporting you can't just replace with an LLM/AI, and your only differentiator in an internet filled with copy and paste stories. Any outlet that neglects it for the usual opinion pieces and soft news coverage is competing with every clickbait content farm out there, without the low operating costs to make it worth it.