couldn't help but weigh in on the Sports Illustrated debacle, though I won't top @davidjroth.bsky.socialwww.latimes.com/business/tec...
The tragedy of AI is not that it stands to replace good journalists, but that it takes every gross, callous move made by management to degrade the production of content — and promises to accelerate ...
This is a really great piece Brian!
Sports Illustrated, G/O, CNET, Buzzfeed, Gannett; these haven't really been 'AI' scandals — AI is just the latest and maybe last awful and deluded tactic the oafishly profit-hungry firms stripping the brands for parts turn to after they've tried everything else
Seems like a good place to air my idea for independent news: Companies like Meta and Google, who make billions, should be required to pay for local ad-free news outlets, the way the networks had to pay for ad-free news on TV, as a public service After all, the internet was paid for by taxes