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The AI reporter that took my old job just got fired

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Re: The AI reporter that took my old job just got fired

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Post by lazystar »

hmm no one has discussed this "carpenter group", who appear to be on a spree in 2024 of snatching up smaller news orgs, and cutting 50% of the staff. seems like a pretty big gamble on AI.

> Carpenter Media Group announced earlier this month it had acquired another group of newspapers, Pamplin Media Group, in Oregon. The company now owns and manages 180 newspapers in the United States and Canada.

> “We are committed to Everett, The Herald and all who have a stake in its success,” Chairman Todd Carpenter said. “We have deep sympathy for those affected by these changes and will work hard with each of them to see they are well-compensated through a transition period that helps them move forward in a positive way.

“Our responsibility to the community and our readers requires us to make difficult business decisions, and then invest in and organize our team to move forward to produce a product that continues to improve and serve. Our track record in this process is good."

https://www.heraldnet.com/news/this-breaks-my-heart-roughly-...

would be very interested to see todd carpenter's data on that last point.

edit - the carpenter media group does not have a wikipedia entry, but the companies it owns do. interesting

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamplin_Media_Group

Re: The AI reporter that took my old job just got fired

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Post by PrismCrystal »

jerf wrote: post #136
tokioyoyo wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I totally agree, but I also think it's just not geared towards us because of our age and preexisting beliefs of "what podcasts/news/videos are supposed to be". Think of kids around age It's the same as short-video format for me. Sure, I can watch some TikToks from time to time, but making them, or continuously getting my news from them? Yeah, that's not gonna fly for me. However, for my niblings (age 8-17) that's bas…

"If they'll keep consuming AI-driven media, they'll take that as normal and won't blink twice if that becomes the de-facto standard in about 10 years." There is a sense in which that is true. However, we all develop taste, and in a hypothetical world where current AI ends up being the limit for another 10 or 20 years, eventually a lot of people would figure out that there's not as much "there" there as they supposed.…

"eventually a lot of people would figure out that there's not as much 'there' there as they supposed."

Let's be honest: most of us here know there is more 'there' on the myriad university-press books available free on Anna's Archive, than on HN. The reason we still hang out here is desire for socializing, laziness, or pathological doomscrolling; information density doesn't really factor into our choices.

Re: The AI reporter that took my old job just got fired

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Post by fragmede »

mjr00 wrote: post #189
fragmede wrote: post #174

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> If people don't engage with your content in the first 3 seconds, it's worthless. Is that based on a vigorous experience as a content creator on TikTok as a long form content creator or are you going off what you've heard about TikTok, or it's what your feed is full of? (which says more about you/your feed than it does about TikTok) https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTYheCgBq/ 1.1 M views https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTYhephfK/…

All of those immediately have something attention-grabbing within the first few seconds: picture of Mars' surface, run map showing funny human shape, text with "Gen Z programmers are crazy" prefacing the anecdote, going immediately into the IT-related rap, guy holding a big and cool-looking stick, "dealing with your 10x coworker" immediately showing the point of the video. The only one that doesn't is the SQL one I g…

none of them are breathless "BIIIG NEWS!! LABOR DAY BREAKFAST GOES HAYWIRE!!!" attention demanding within the first three seconds imo, but, sure, whatever, you're totally right

Re: The AI reporter that took my old job just got fired

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Post by nitwit005 »

datahack wrote: post #82

While I enjoyed the article, it’s just another in a line of the same article with different flavors and authors that all have the same fundamental error. The prevailing counterargument against AI consistently hinges on the present state of AI rather than the trajectory of its development: but what matters is not the capabilities of AI as they exist today, but the astonishing velocity at which those capabilities are e…

What is your time horizon? We're already at a date where people were saying these jobs would be gone. The people most optimistic about the trajectory of this technology were clearly wrong.

If you tell me AI newscasters will be fully functional in 10 or 15 years, I'll believe it. But that far in the future, I'd also believe news will be totally transformed due to some other technology we aren't thinking about yet.

Re: The AI reporter that took my old job just got fired

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Post by hnthrowaway6543 »

hansonkd wrote: post #164

the CocaCola commercial that everyone "hated" that "destroyed the brand equity" according to numerous news outlets solidified to me that we are passing a mark and this is the last desperate gasp of multiple industries coping with the rapid advancements AI is bringing. Sure the Coke ad was a bit cringe. But the reality is in 5 years most ads you see will be AI and nobody will care. That along with the Ben Affleck Rant…

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Re: The AI reporter that took my old job just got fired

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Post by Xenoamorphous »

namaria wrote: post #150
Xenoamorphous wrote: post #45

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> This is the first inning I think this is the key part.

How is a very off putting start a good thing?

The videos in question would’ve been considered science fiction a mere 5 years ago, so I definitely don’t consider them a very off putting start.

That doesn’t mean that I think they’re perfect or that the technology will keep improving at a fast pace (nobody knows for sure).

Re: The AI reporter that took my old job just got fired

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Post by jimjimjim »

tokioyoyo wrote: post #11
vunderba wrote: post #5

Slightly tangential, but this is the reason I'm baffled why people think that AI-driven podcasts would ever be worth listening to. If you can find an LLM+TTS generated podcast with even a FRACTION of the infectious energy as something like Good Job Brain, Radio Lab, or Ask Me Another, then I'll eat my hat. I don't even own one. I'll drive to the nearest hat store, purchase the tallest stovetop hat that I can afford a…

I totally agree, but I also think it's just not geared towards us because of our age and preexisting beliefs of "what podcasts/news/videos are supposed to be". Think of kids around age It's the same as short-video format for me. Sure, I can watch some TikToks from time to time, but making them, or continuously getting my news from them? Yeah, that's not gonna fly for me. However, for my niblings (age 8-17) that's bas…

Blipverts are probably the future and not just for ads but for content as well

Re: The AI reporter that took my old job just got fired

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Post by hansonkd »

hnthrowaway6543 wrote: post #195
hansonkd wrote: post #164

the CocaCola commercial that everyone "hated" that "destroyed the brand equity" according to numerous news outlets solidified to me that we are passing a mark and this is the last desperate gasp of multiple industries coping with the rapid advancements AI is bringing. Sure the Coke ad was a bit cringe. But the reality is in 5 years most ads you see will be AI and nobody will care. That along with the Ben Affleck Rant…

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This isn't an economically driven platform that is directly revenue driven like ads, movies, news articles, podcasts, etc for one.

go to reddit or even linkedin which is revenue driven and it is a sea of bots parroting the same tired points with comments that are 1 or 2 words different from other comments directly above them.

My entire point is that human production is not going to zero, but is moving to a minority.

I still go to the theatre and listen to live orchestras but I would be a fool to say that other mass media types didn't replace the cultural role of entertainment that those forms once had.

Re: The AI reporter that took my old job just got fired

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Post by hnthrowaway6543 »

hansonkd wrote: post #199
hnthrowaway6543 wrote: post #195

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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This isn't an economically driven platform that is directly revenue driven like ads, movies, news articles, podcasts, etc for one. go to reddit or even linkedin which is revenue driven and it is a sea of bots parroting the same tired points with comments that are 1 or 2 words different from other comments directly above them. My entire point is that human production is not going to zero, but is moving to a minority.…

Yeah but why are you consuming human-generated garbage comments on HN instead of just getting infinite comments from ChatGPT?

Pontificate on this, then return.

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