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From a piece by what appear to be two actual humans named Frank Landymore and Jon Christian published in 'Futurism':
When the iconic entertainment site The A.V. Club started publishing AI-generated articles earlier this summer at the directive of its owner, G/O Media, the backlash was intense."The A.V. Club used to be a benchmark for pop culture writing on the net and now it's a private equity ghost town pumping out AI generated listicles," wrote film journalist Luke Dunne...{snip}...Amid the fallout, G/O editorial director Merrill Brown sent out an internal memo instructing staff to ignore the criticism..."Several of us are very familiar with this kind of chatter as it's part of an inevitable media industry feedback loop that comes with the advance of new technologies like the Internet in the nineties and more recently the widespread use of streaming media technology"...
So.
What's it really all about Alfie?
Well, as you may have already guessed...
What's it really all about Alfie?
Well, as you may have already guessed...
The inevitable feedback loop that feeds the online firehose filled to bursting with liquified garbage, is designed to...
Get rid of actual people:
Get rid of actual people:
...The reality, of course, is that G/O (Media) is almost certainly testing whether it can use this type of automated content to eliminate the jobs of its remaining human staffers.It has a long history in that domain. And though G/O only began its AI experiment in July (of 2023), the slow exsanguination of its excellent publications, including The Onion and Deadspin, had already begun years before...
Gosh.
No writers...no new stuff...just an endless loop grinding the pablum ever finer...
No writers...no new stuff...just an endless loop grinding the pablum ever finer...
Quelle surprise!
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Interestingly, or, perhaps ironically... The online journal 'Futurism', where this 'expose' appeared, appears itself be part of a venture/hedgy-backed pseudo content farm-type organization called 'Recurrent Media'...Again, in their defense, at least they seem to be using real, actual people writers (who sure do crank out the pieces though)...
6 comments:
This is a modern world, 1981! On the upside I remember where I was and doing. interest rates were high.
Song has stood up over time. As good today as it was then. So can this new automatated AI sutff produce music this good? Doubt it. My take is AI or whatever is not going to be as good as people writing. A computer maybe able to write, but it won't be "original", it will be a compilation of things already in exsistence.
Using this sort of new technology will eliminate writing jobs. Corporations will be happy. As a reader, doubt if we will find it satisfactory over the long haul. With no human expression all we may read is what the computer has been told to write. we will find a gap in the information we receive, but that may work well for any number of politicians.
There will be great uses for ai and also a lot of danger. we can imagine how a lot of politicians are going to use it.
Most newpapers aren't that reliable aznymore, hence the blogs, etc.
Corporations aren't the friends of readers, consumers, voters, etc. They are there to make money one way or another. Even those non profits--check the salaries of those running the "non profit"
Thanks for the song and the list which came with it. Fun! It was such a long time ago. No huge forest fires. Yes, you could drive for an afternoon swim in Penticton, if it was raining in Vancouver, and drive back in the evening.
e.a.f.--
Drive all the way to Penticton for a swim?
What, Otter Lake near Princeton wasn't good enough for you?!!!
(glad you enjoyed hearing/seeing the old Jam stuff again...Clearly Paul Weller saw the future)
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What does G/O stand for? Gawd Offal?
Anon-Above--
'Offal' is such a good word - sounds like what it is.
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It had to be Skaha Lake or nothing. Otter Lake is nice, but it isn't Skaha Lake. You could watch the planes land at the airport at the same time. Also the sand at Skaha Beach is so nice. Plus you drive through Keromos and pick up boxes of fruit. Mom would can or freeze the fruit for winter. One fruit stand also sold pies.
Used to drive to Vernon on a Friday after work and be in the bar by 10 P.M. with friends. Gas was cheap. Car was fast, highway didn't have much traffic, so off you went.
Oh Boy...Wild West/California North...
I get it now e.a.f.
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