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Key point: Don't blame AI. It was slop on these[1] sites before it became AI slop. Before AI came along, the local Oregon "news" sites were acquired by nationa
by runjake 2y ago
Key point: Don't blame AI. It was slop on these[1] sites before it became AI slop.
Before AI came along, the local Oregon "news" sites were acquired by national/multinational media companies. They fired the existing writer staff and hired the cheapest people they could to write stories. Articles were riddled with spelling and grammatical errors and the stories did not ask or answer some of the basic questions about the topic of the story.
You feed garbage into an AI and you're going to get garbage out.
I don't expect it to improve in this market because their goal is to sell ads and get eyeballs.
1. Sinclair, Allen Media, etc
- idatum 2y agoI think this trend is going to get worse and we haven't hit bottom. But the bounce from bottom may be we seek out actual journalists and a new (again) market emerges for human generated, quality content. And I hope this starts at the local level. We need "local papers".
- intended 2y agoHow is this the takeaway? The newspaper went under. Then the address got bought by scammers. Did I misread the article?
- runjake 2y agoA majority of the article is about large media groups (including the ones I mentioned) buying up local news websites and filling them with low quality, AI-written stories. My comment is about the exact same media groups and geographic areas discussed in the article.