"It makes sense that the press release uses the phrase “global news content”—content is an ugly but useful word for understanding exactly what’s happening here.

"It makes sense that the press release uses the phrase “global news content”—content is an ugly but useful word for understanding exactly what’s happening here. At its core, generative AI cannot distinguish original journalism from any other bit of writing; to the machine, it’s all slop pushed through the pipes and splattered out the other end. For this reason, the deal is notable not just for media wonks, but because it says something about the future of the internet—in particular, the vision that OpenAI has for it." "The shift to news via chatbot feels ironic when you consider what generative AI has wrought elsewhere: Old-school search engines such as Google have been flooded with supercharged, optimized spam and are struggling to handle it, while sites such as CNET and Gizmodo have published deeply flawed synthetic writing in a desperate bid to stay competitive. ChatGPT is becoming more capable at the same time that its underlying technology is destroying much of the web as we’ve known it." Garbage in, garbage out.