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So then you just chose to respond with my final example: “ An alternative explanation will be “well The writing wasn’t very good anyway, it was all a regurgita

So then you just chose to respond with my final example: “ An alternative explanation will be “well The writing wasn’t very good anyway, it was all a regurgitation of the same thing over and over anyways”, so “nothing of value has been lost.”” In fact something has been lost, which is a human being is now less able to feed themselves and their family and take a vacation and create something valuable. The fact that you and others don’t care about that outcome is the problem.

carlosjobim 3y ago
If a person is a journalist, then that person has the capacity to conduct investigations, make interviews and such things that an AI can never do. If the person is only able to make re-writes, then he or she is not a journalist. If the AI is good at making rewrites, that will free up time for journalists to focus on making more quality reporting.
- solardev 3y ago
  We're probably not very far away from an AI being able to email and make calls and do those interviews. Or create a Zoom avatar for itself. Is it going to produce Pulutzwr-winning articles right off the bat? Probably not. But I could easily see it replacing the more mundane everyday articles, especially when it's just regurgitating some press release or new study or product launch.
  - carlosjobim 3y ago
    There's a whole other dynamic when a person interviews another person that AI can't replace. I don't see it as feasible. Every interview is voluntary, you can't force anybody to be interviewed by an AI and most subjects would decline. Those who accepted to be interviewed by an AI would be seen as people basically interviewing themselves. "when it's just regurgitating some press release or new study or product launch." Maybe news media should start moving away from this model? They can link to the press release and be done with it. The valuable thing they do is their own reporting and investigating.
    - solardev 3y ago
      I doubt the AI would voluntarily self identify as such, unless we force it to. Some of the interviewees may never know the difference. But yeah agreed, wish papers just republished wire stories or press releases and spent what little staff they still have on original (ideally local) reporting.
      - JimtheCoder 3y ago
        "I doubt the AI would voluntarily self identify as such, unless we force it to. Some of the interviewees may never know the difference." I certainly hope we would force them to identify. I don't have problems talking to an AI, but when there is a reasonable expectation that I should be talking to a human...it should be a human.

carlosjobim 3y ago

If a person is a journalist, then that person has the capacity to conduct investigations, make interviews and such things that an AI can never do. If the person is only able to make re-writes, then he or she is not a journalist. If the AI is good at making rewrites, that will free up time for journalists to focus on making more quality reporting.

solardev 3y ago
We're probably not very far away from an AI being able to email and make calls and do those interviews. Or create a Zoom avatar for itself. Is it going to produce Pulutzwr-winning articles right off the bat? Probably not. But I could easily see it replacing the more mundane everyday articles, especially when it's just regurgitating some press release or new study or product launch.
- carlosjobim 3y ago
  There's a whole other dynamic when a person interviews another person that AI can't replace. I don't see it as feasible. Every interview is voluntary, you can't force anybody to be interviewed by an AI and most subjects would decline. Those who accepted to be interviewed by an AI would be seen as people basically interviewing themselves. "when it's just regurgitating some press release or new study or product launch." Maybe news media should start moving away from this model? They can link to the press release and be done with it. The valuable thing they do is their own reporting and investigating.
  - solardev 3y ago
    I doubt the AI would voluntarily self identify as such, unless we force it to. Some of the interviewees may never know the difference. But yeah agreed, wish papers just republished wire stories or press releases and spent what little staff they still have on original (ideally local) reporting.
    - JimtheCoder 3y ago
      "I doubt the AI would voluntarily self identify as such, unless we force it to. Some of the interviewees may never know the difference." I certainly hope we would force them to identify. I don't have problems talking to an AI, but when there is a reasonable expectation that I should be talking to a human...it should be a human.