Google tests A.I. tool that is able to write news articles
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#3In summary: under the pretext of showcasing a writing assistant / tool, Google scares the (s... out of) newspaper companies by showing them an AI that can write news articles all by itself.
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#4I suppose all a news writer has to do now is tell the AI what happened and then then the AI can tell everyone else what happened.
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#5As a (formerly?) information retrieval company, isn't this shitting where one eats? They don't exactly need more irrelevant material to sort out.
Re: Google tests A.I. tool that is able to write news articles
#6In summary: under the pretext of showcasing a writing assistant / tool, Google scares the (s... out of) newspaper companies by showing them an AI that can write news articles all by itself.
Or, it's Google firing a shot across the bow of newspaper companies that think Google should pay to use their content.
Google's modus operandi has always been to automate people out of the equation. This lets Google have its own news operation, without paying for all those pesky journalists.
I wonder if the AI will eventually write stories about any of the bad things that Google does, or just the good things.
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#7I’d love to hear somebody try to explain how this won’t negatively impact the labor market for journalists.
My guess is that the argument will be that the “tools will simply help augment rather than replace the writer.”
We know, however, that some small segment of implementations will actually in fact, cause someone to be fired or replaced, and things will get slightly worse for the consumer.
An alternative explanation will be “well The writing wasn’t very good anyway, it was all a regurgitation of the same thing over and over anyways”, so “nothing of value has been lost.”
I’d love to hear people saying hey maybe let’s not do this in order to maintain a human system run by humans for the benefit of humans and that includes paying humans for labor (when you could actually get equivalent labor from a machine) because it’s important to keep humans alive and creating communities and supporting each other.
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#8I’d love to hear somebody try to explain how this won’t negatively impact the labor market for journalists. My guess is that the argument will be that the “tools will simply help augment rather than replace the writer.” We know, however, that some small segment of implementations will actually in fact, cause someone to be fired or replaced, and things will get slightly worse for the consumer. An alternative explanati…
How many humans do you want employed as butter churners?
I imagine that the new AI-enabled jobs are going to have so much more autonomy and that we'll see a switch from capital intensive businesses employing lots of people (eg. Hollywood studios) to lots of tiny indie houses with fewer than a dozen folks, building exactly what they want with freedom.
Re: Google tests A.I. tool that is able to write news articles
#9I’d love to hear somebody try to explain how this won’t negatively impact the labor market for journalists. My guess is that the argument will be that the “tools will simply help augment rather than replace the writer.” We know, however, that some small segment of implementations will actually in fact, cause someone to be fired or replaced, and things will get slightly worse for the consumer. An alternative explanati…
> My guess is that the argument will be that the “tools will simply help augment rather than replace the writer.”
Yet they always end up augmenting the scammer, grifter and undermine those that want to remain articulate.
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#10America's most prestigious news organization is reporting that an AI can write news articles, with no evidence other than Google's say-so.
We seem to be reaching peak generative AI hype.