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This article is almost irrelevant because here we are in 2024, barreling towards a future where there are approximately zero real journalists, and all news is w
by DowsingSpoon 2y ago
This article is almost irrelevant because here we are in 2024, barreling towards a future where there are approximately zero real journalists, and all news is written by an LLM. No reader wants this, but it’s clear it’s coming and it’s coming soon.
- mrangle 2y agoNow consider that journalists are essentially the historians. Arguably, this is even their primary function. Meaning that very soon history books will be citing history as written by LLMs. There's a lot of downstream discussion to be had from this premise.
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- tivert 2y ago> and all news is written by an LLM. And that's arguably not even really news. IMHO, the best that can be is regurgitated press releases or worse (like closing stock prices mashed up with hot takes from social media and some hallucinations for "analysis"). An LLM isn't going to do any investigation, or even really have any judgement about what to write about. Though I'm sure "AI" enthusiastic will happily point to the weakened state of journalism, which does sometimes regurgitate press releases, as justification for weakening it further in order hype "AI" more.