The Washington Post's new-ish CEO has announced that the newspaper will be pivoting to artificial intelligence to turn sales around.
  • magnetosphere@fedia.io
    9·
    6 months ago

    “This is all repairable, all doable, particularly if we do it together.”

    Translation: even though this bad decision was made without your input, we want to be able to blame you when it fails.

  • Rolando@lemmy.world
    5·
    6 months ago

    After being personally tapped by WaPo owner Jeff Bezos for the gig, Lewis began working as publisher of the newspaper at the beginning of 2024.

    Wait, I thought Besos was going to be hands-off of the Washington Post? ThatWasALie.jpg

  • maculata
    61·
    6 months ago

    Righto. All the humans are fired eh? Great. I’m sure that lead to some wonderful outcomes.

    • BlameThePeacock@lemmy.caEnglish
      23·
      6 months ago

      That’s literally the same argument that’s been made for every tech advancement in history.

      I’m happy to entertain specific problems with THIS tech, but keeping people doing a job that doesn’t actually require a human is no different than having people dig a ditch and then fill it back in repeatedly.

      • maculata
        61·
        6 months ago

        Proper journalists are massively different than ditch diggers.

        One cannot have a closed loop of AI as a newspaper. At least, not for another 50 years until the language models acquire enough subtly. Even then, I ain’t gonna read that shit. I want a human take on human problems.

        • BlameThePeacock@lemmy.caEnglish
          2·
          6 months ago

          It’s not having AI write fiction, the information still needs to come from journalists. The AI will almost certainly just be used to speed up the writing and editing process, which will save them money by requiring fewer people in those roles.

          • maculata
            1·
            6 months ago

            “Save money”

            Ssshhh! Do you smell death? I smell death.