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You 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

You 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 10mo ago
Back 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 10mo ago
  At the end of the day, we the audience reward the behavior unfortunately
Cpoll 10mo ago
> You could easily replace them with an LLM if that were the case. We're already seeing this happen.
nickthegreek 10mo ago
The journalist should have used the LLM to explain how this wasn’t a hack but a common mistake made by untrained workers.
- adolph 10mo ago
  And 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 10mo ago
Um - 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 10mo ago
  I 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.

ben_w 10mo ago

Back 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 10mo ago
At the end of the day, we the audience reward the behavior unfortunately

Cpoll 10mo ago

> You could easily replace them with an LLM if that were the case. We're already seeing this happen.

nickthegreek 10mo ago

The journalist should have used the LLM to explain how this wasn’t a hack but a common mistake made by untrained workers.

adolph 10mo ago
And 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 10mo ago

Um - 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 10mo ago
I 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.