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Here is the template to write a news article... State some facts as reported by others (never link to supporting documents only summarize them) Quote from expert or eyewitness on why this is important Quote from other expert why this might not be important (optional as this might make the story not truly news worthy) State that confusing aspects of the story are "unclear" Fill the rest of the story from articles on t…
I’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…
Journalism is a lot more than just turning press releases and such into articles. In fact, making it cheaper to churn those out will free up money for real journalism — investigations, interviews, analysis, opinions.
I’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…
You are aware that, prior to refrigeration, people would harvest ice from the Arctic? Honestly, I don't care they all lost their jobs if it means millions of people don't die during heat waves.
I’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…
> 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. You are aware that, prior to refrigeration, people would harvest ice from the Arcti…
Umm, are you sure about that? Source?
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> 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. You are aware that, prior to refrigeration, people would harvest ice from the Arcti…
> prior to refrigeration, people would harvest ice from the Arctic Umm, are you sure about that? Source?
Some things that I've learned so far:
- The AI is too gullible. If I ask it to write a short summary of an article, if the source article is trying to shill a product or service, the AI will replicate the salesman discourse. I tried adjusting the prompt to see if I could make it more critical of content that it is analyzing (by telling it ahead of time that the post might be trying to push a product/service).
- Costs are ludricously low. It costs like 1 cent per 15 articles.
- My next experiment will be with local news. I'm building some feeds with public information from my town (the town's hall official news, the legislators weekly meeting notes, weather reports, waze, etc), and based on that make it generate news items. The thing about it is that its sources will be (nearly) primary - it will not copy content from other journalists (apart from the official prefecture news, which I will need to tell the AI that will be biased towards the current administration). When analyzing the local records, it might be able to catch shady stuff that regular journalists would not notice. Imagine feeding some buying orders from the town and asking the AI ("is something illegal going on here" or "are any of these items overpriced?")
- I see a risk/opportunity for infinite content generation. Example: generate 50 headlines for articles about the Kardashians. The next day, ask for more and provide the last 200 headlines, to make sure that no repetitions occur. It would flood search engines with almost random content. I think that something like that could be useful to fill "holes" in wikipedia, though.
The site that I built is https://dev-radar.com/
Here is the template to write a news article... State some facts as reported by others (never link to supporting documents only summarize them) Quote from expert or eyewitness on why this is important Quote from other expert why this might not be important (optional as this might make the story not truly news worthy) State that confusing aspects of the story are "unclear" Fill the rest of the story from articles on t…
I’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…
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> the whole industry collapses in on itself, taking opinion pieces with it. That's throwing the baby out with the bathwater. Opinion pieces will be the last to go, after everything of value has been destroyed. And honestly, not all opinion pieces are bad. Most are crap partisan hackery and outrage-bait, but some are very valuable (e.g. those unconnected with ideological bickering, those struggling to explain a point…
> Opinion pieces will be the last to go, after everything of value has been destroyed. Wouldn't opinion pieces be the first to go? We're already in a world where most opinion pieces are part of carefully orchestrated PR campaigns (sometimes even wholly ghostwritten) meant to drive policy discussion in one way or another. If you can AI write this and ascribe it to a reputable source, why wouldn't the industry adopt th…
No because people are interested in the opinions of influencers.