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That doesn't matter in the end. 1/ Technology has always disrupted labor market so I mean that's not even a question this will happen. 2/ It's not that sad: I

That doesn't matter in the end. 1/ Technology has always disrupted labor market so I mean that's not even a question this will happen. 2/ It's not that sad: I've worked in journaism and the reality is that 80% of news article are already most of the time a sad copypasta of a single main source of info such as reuters / AFP in france. Most of journalism is already noise. Maybe that will help recenter journalism on real investigative missions rather than this current low value state.

AndrewKemendo 3y ago
>That doesn't matter in the end. Doesn't matter to who? I'm pretty sure it matters a lot to people working in a newsroom
- davidguetta 3y ago
  Sure but once again so what ? Change is part of life
  - AndrewKemendo 3y ago
    We know that change, specifically in employment status in America, can and often does mean the difference between life or death. So yes it’s extremely important that employment changes not be thrust on people if we can at all avoid it as a society. You should care more about the plight of others.
    - davidguetta 3y ago
      I do ! But the point technology is not the one to blame, it's the current structure of society, in particular the one in the USA who throws people in poverty while there's so many wealth around. I an in Europe and wealth is a lot more redistributed. AI will just amplify wealth accumulation but it's the policies who have to step up to counterbalance it with coporate taxes. Blaming AI is like blaming rain for being wet.
      - AndrewKemendo 3y ago
        To clarify, I'm simply saying lets not accelerate the process of eliminating jobs The fact that "AI" makes that a shibboleth is correlated, but by no means is AI the only process for which that happens It just so happens that's the current trajectory and is expected to impact the labor market that to an extent that has been unseen since the industrial revolution - with billions more employees
  - pixl97 3y ago
    So is extinction, but I'd rather put that off till some time long after I'm gone.
- SirMaster 3y ago
  Well you said newsroom, which is about news. How is the LLM getting the latest news? It doesn't (yet) really have eyes and ears etc. And news travels fast, or at least people would like it to. Also opinion pieces. I have 0 interest in the "opinion" of an LLM, but I am interested in the opinion of at least some human beings.
paganel 3y ago
Unfortunately local news doesn’t find its place in Reuters/AFP news dispatched, and so losing local news will basically mean an epistemic black hole when it comes to the stuff physically closest to us.
- hulitu 3y ago
  They will fill the void with gossip.
- davidguetta 3y ago
  Or it's the opposite: local press will be the only real jobs left, and it's probably for the better. Who REALLY needs to know what's happening in bengladesh right now if you live in europe ?

AndrewKemendo 3y ago

>That doesn't matter in the end. Doesn't matter to who? I'm pretty sure it matters a lot to people working in a newsroom

davidguetta 3y ago
Sure but once again so what ? Change is part of life
- AndrewKemendo 3y ago
  We know that change, specifically in employment status in America, can and often does mean the difference between life or death. So yes it’s extremely important that employment changes not be thrust on people if we can at all avoid it as a society. You should care more about the plight of others.
  - davidguetta 3y ago
    I do ! But the point technology is not the one to blame, it's the current structure of society, in particular the one in the USA who throws people in poverty while there's so many wealth around. I an in Europe and wealth is a lot more redistributed. AI will just amplify wealth accumulation but it's the policies who have to step up to counterbalance it with coporate taxes. Blaming AI is like blaming rain for being wet.
    - AndrewKemendo 3y ago
      To clarify, I'm simply saying lets not accelerate the process of eliminating jobs The fact that "AI" makes that a shibboleth is correlated, but by no means is AI the only process for which that happens It just so happens that's the current trajectory and is expected to impact the labor market that to an extent that has been unseen since the industrial revolution - with billions more employees
- pixl97 3y ago
  So is extinction, but I'd rather put that off till some time long after I'm gone.
SirMaster 3y ago
Well you said newsroom, which is about news. How is the LLM getting the latest news? It doesn't (yet) really have eyes and ears etc. And news travels fast, or at least people would like it to. Also opinion pieces. I have 0 interest in the "opinion" of an LLM, but I am interested in the opinion of at least some human beings.

paganel 3y ago

Unfortunately local news doesn’t find its place in Reuters/AFP news dispatched, and so losing local news will basically mean an epistemic black hole when it comes to the stuff physically closest to us.

hulitu 3y ago
They will fill the void with gossip.
davidguetta 3y ago
Or it's the opposite: local press will be the only real jobs left, and it's probably for the better. Who REALLY needs to know what's happening in bengladesh right now if you live in europe ?