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> How does AI attend meetings, ask questions of local officials or bodies, provide in-person reports and original fact based copy? It can't. And the notion tha
by arp242 2y ago
> How does AI attend meetings, ask questions of local officials or bodies, provide in-person reports and original fact based copy?
It can't. And the notion that it will be able to "in five years" is completely without any basis. It's possible, I suppose, but anyone who claims this with great certainty is not a serious person.
- codemac 2y agoDemand disappeared for good local reporting, long before any LLM. Even NYT & WSJ struggle with their subscriptions, and they have a huge addressable market. The "slop" is just a reflection of this bottom feeding attempt to get some tiny bit of ad revenue. Using an LLM or a "pay per article" contracting fleet looks very similar. Most local publications don't pay many if any full time journalists either way. I struggle to find great journalism on any local level around me - and discovery is difficult when anything reasonably good is usually a substack behind a paywall. But even then, they aren't pushing on local issues in person. None are going to the Mayor's press conference and directly asking them questions.
- gs17 2y ago> It's possible, I suppose I'm imagining Atlas running around city hall with a little reporter hat on.