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This is the dawn of a "post non-narrative prose" era. Why bother with an article describing some event or really anything that is traditionally written about in

This is the dawn of a "post non-narrative prose" era. Why bother with an article describing some event or really anything that is traditionally written about in any form of article at all? In time, just the data will be released and your favorite LLM prepared with your favorite reading style will provide the mustard for your data, making it consumable. The journalism industry has failed in their mission, and nobody that should trust it trusts it anymore. Articles are simply what someone else wants you to think.

immibis 2y ago
In reality they will use the LLM to add the prose to the data and we will use another LLM to delete it.
conartist6 2y ago
That's the spirit! Why bother? It's about "consumability". Once meaning and purpose are forever vanquished from life, imagine how happy we will all be drooling through our soulless data stream!
- ta8645 2y ago
  > Once meaning and purpose are forever vanquished from life Once you truly appreciate the impending death of yourself and everyone you love, and ultimately the heat death of the universe, how do you find meaning and purpose? How meaningful can it be if it's all going away regardless? Being quite morose and consumed by a debilitating sense of pointlessness, it would be really nice to find some hopeful inspiration.
tivert 2y ago
> This is the dawn of a "post non-narrative prose" era. Why bother with an article describing some event or really anything that is traditionally written about in any form of article at all? In time, just the data will be released and your favorite LLM prepared with your favorite reading style will provide the mustard for your data, making it consumable. Who's going to "[release the data] describing some event or really anything"? It's not like there's some objective "data packet" behind every article that can be had for free. > The journalism industry has failed in their mission, and nobody that should trust it trusts it anymore. Articles are simply what someone else wants you to think. The "AI" era will be worse in that regard, not better. You're essentially saying "The food at the restaurant is terrible and I don't like it, so in the future to solve that problem we'll eat shit instead."
Lonota 2y ago
Maybe journalists can return to "seeking truth" instead of generating clicks? I mean, when the whole 2nd thing is completely automated because its bar is so low anything from 2 years ago could do it, that kinda only leaves the 1st option as a business idea.

immibis 2y ago

In reality they will use the LLM to add the prose to the data and we will use another LLM to delete it.

conartist6 2y ago

That's the spirit! Why bother? It's about "consumability". Once meaning and purpose are forever vanquished from life, imagine how happy we will all be drooling through our soulless data stream!

ta8645 2y ago
> Once meaning and purpose are forever vanquished from life Once you truly appreciate the impending death of yourself and everyone you love, and ultimately the heat death of the universe, how do you find meaning and purpose? How meaningful can it be if it's all going away regardless? Being quite morose and consumed by a debilitating sense of pointlessness, it would be really nice to find some hopeful inspiration.

tivert 2y ago

> This is the dawn of a "post non-narrative prose" era. Why bother with an article describing some event or really anything that is traditionally written about in any form of article at all? In time, just the data will be released and your favorite LLM prepared with your favorite reading style will provide the mustard for your data, making it consumable. Who's going to "[release the data] describing some event or really anything"? It's not like there's some objective "data packet" behind every article that can be had for free. > The journalism industry has failed in their mission, and nobody that should trust it trusts it anymore. Articles are simply what someone else wants you to think. The "AI" era will be worse in that regard, not better. You're essentially saying "The food at the restaurant is terrible and I don't like it, so in the future to solve that problem we'll eat shit instead."

Lonota 2y ago

Maybe journalists can return to "seeking truth" instead of generating clicks? I mean, when the whole 2nd thing is completely automated because its bar is so low anything from 2 years ago could do it, that kinda only leaves the 1st option as a business idea.