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>just that once you're in the role for two days you realize that replacing that role entirely isn't going to happen. Journalists might very well say the same t

by foldr 3y ago

>just that once you're in the role for two days you realize that replacing that role entirely isn't going to happen. Journalists might very well say the same thing (when people who've never been journalists talk about replacing them with AI).

pclmulqdq 3y ago
The kind of journalism that journalists want you to think they do - going out into war zones or directly interviewing people to find out new things of public interest - isn't replaceable by AI. The kind of journalism they actually do - hanging out on Twitter and repeating whatever goes trending there - is easily replaceable. They did this to themselves.
- foldr 3y ago
  That is certainly the view of many people who aren't writers or journalists. We'll see if it plays out. Jobs do tend to appear simpler than they really are when looking in from the outside. >They did this to themselves. And who set this bad direction? The CEO. This hardly adds to the case for not replacing him with an AI.
  - jonas21 3y ago
    It is also the view of many working journalists, or at least the ones I know. And it's not like some CEO decided "hey, let's pivot to churning out low-quality clickbait because I really like that stuff." They were forced to by the shift of ad budgets from print to more targeted advertising and the consolidation of news readership into a small number of well-known publications. Though I do agree that it's equally unfair to blame journalists for this.
    - coldpie 3y ago
      > They were forced to by the shift of ad budgets from print to more targeted advertising Indeed. As with almost everything else terrible about the world today, the root of the problem is targeted-advertising-based business models.
      - pixelrevision 3y ago
        It really has caused a race to the bottom anywhere it becomes the primary business model. Everyone hates it but no one’s got a solve to get people paying for things once they are “free”.
    - foldr 3y ago
      We'll see how successful the autogenerated clickbait farms end up being. But nothing you're saying is really making a case for the company needing a visionary human intelligence for its CEO. If the entire business model of the company is strictly determined by external conditions, then the whole thing seems ripe for automation.
    - topaz0 3y ago
      > forced Only if you consider it to be inevitable that their primary goal is to make themselves and their owners preposterously rich.

by foldr 3y ago

pclmulqdq 3y ago

The kind of journalism that journalists want you to think they do - going out into war zones or directly interviewing people to find out new things of public interest - isn't replaceable by AI. The kind of journalism they actually do - hanging out on Twitter and repeating whatever goes trending there - is easily replaceable. They did this to themselves.

foldr 3y ago
That is certainly the view of many people who aren't writers or journalists. We'll see if it plays out. Jobs do tend to appear simpler than they really are when looking in from the outside. >They did this to themselves. And who set this bad direction? The CEO. This hardly adds to the case for not replacing him with an AI.
- jonas21 3y ago
  It is also the view of many working journalists, or at least the ones I know. And it's not like some CEO decided "hey, let's pivot to churning out low-quality clickbait because I really like that stuff." They were forced to by the shift of ad budgets from print to more targeted advertising and the consolidation of news readership into a small number of well-known publications. Though I do agree that it's equally unfair to blame journalists for this.
  - coldpie 3y ago
    > They were forced to by the shift of ad budgets from print to more targeted advertising Indeed. As with almost everything else terrible about the world today, the root of the problem is targeted-advertising-based business models.
    - pixelrevision 3y ago
      It really has caused a race to the bottom anywhere it becomes the primary business model. Everyone hates it but no one’s got a solve to get people paying for things once they are “free”.
  - foldr 3y ago
    We'll see how successful the autogenerated clickbait farms end up being. But nothing you're saying is really making a case for the company needing a visionary human intelligence for its CEO. If the entire business model of the company is strictly determined by external conditions, then the whole thing seems ripe for automation.
  - topaz0 3y ago
    > forced Only if you consider it to be inevitable that their primary goal is to make themselves and their owners preposterously rich.