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>How someone like this gets a paying job as a journalist is beyond me. You seem highly confused on what a journalists job is in this era. Very few publishers a
by pixl97 11mo ago
>How someone like this gets a paying job as a journalist is beyond me.
You seem highly confused on what a journalists job is in this era. Very few publishers are about correctness. It's about speed of getting the article out and getting as many eyeballs as possible to look at the ads in the article.
Or as the saying goes, A lie can travel halfway around the world before the truth can get its boots on.
- sallveburrpi 11mo agoYou could easily replace them with an LLM if that were the case. Although I don’t completely disagree with your cynical take I don’t think that’s actually the case for most of the Guardians journalists, they do a lot of quality reporting too
- ben_w 11mo agoBack when LLM chatbots were new and shiny, I was comparing the failure modes to journalism by way of the Gell-Mann amnesia effect. Sure, deep investigative jounalism with real skill and effort behind it is a thing; but it is an expensive thing, and opinion pieces disguised as jounalism are much cheaper, as is reporting on other people's reports.
- Forgeties79 11mo agoAt the end of the day, we the audience reward the behavior unfortunately
- Cpoll 11mo ago> You could easily replace them with an LLM if that were the case. We're already seeing this happen.
- nickthegreek 11mo agoThe journalist should have used the LLM to explain how this wasn’t a hack but a common mistake made by untrained workers.
- adolph 11mo agoAnd the lawyers should have used an LLM to perform a first pass of the redactions and methods of redaction. Going forward the full stack of perpetrators, unindicted coconspirators, lawyers, judges, legislators, journalists, editors, fact checkers, ... it'll all be LLM all the way down such that nothing will be trustable save something akin to Stephenson's gargoyles and Flock cameras for which people will conduct spectacles to shape the salience landscape.
- EGreg 11mo agoUm - and not just journalists. Most “bullshit jobs” are already being replaced. The era of bullshit jobs is coming to an end: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullshit_Jobs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullshit_Jobs
- sallveburrpi 11mo agoI wish it was true. From the bullshit jobs in the book, I can only see the box tickers being replaced. The flunkies, goons, task masters, and duct tapers will probably continue to exist. Als unless we come up with something like UBI or a dramatic rethinking of how capitalism works in our society there will probably be __more__ bullshit jobs.
- sigwinch 11mo agoBut there is a more-powerful combo we’re beginning to see: journalists can take a story and prompt their way into a list of missing perspectives. The Lindbergh baby, for example.