"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 it."
couldn't help but weigh in on the Sports Illustrated debacle, though I won't top @davidjroth.bsky.social. how AI has been used by media companies this year makes clear what it really is—not any instrument for building the future, but an extraction tool of last resort www.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 ...
It is instructive that, for all the real possibilities of AI in science and engineering, the biggest boosters are like “what if you never had to know what other humans think and feel? Wouldn’t that be tops?!”
Totally crazy that this dropped in February, too. AI writing was on the SI wall back then!
Arena Group uses the technology to help produce Men’s Journal pieces such as workout tips