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Washington Post Resorts to Replacing Journalists With AI Bots After $77 Million Loss
The Daily Fetched ^ | 24 May 2024 | Jason Walsh

Posted on 05/25/2024 12:41:09 AM PDT by Sam77

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1 posted on 05/25/2024 12:41:09 AM PDT by Sam77
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Liberal journalist hacks being replaced by bots.......BOOOOOO HOOOOO.


2 posted on 05/25/2024 1:20:26 AM PDT by Hambone 1934 (Dems love playing Nazis.....The republicans love helping them)
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To: Sam77
Will there be AI catfights?

3 posted on 05/25/2024 1:20:36 AM PDT by Right_Wing_Madman
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Since all those AI engines are the products of biased minds, there’s no way any of them can be purely objective.


4 posted on 05/25/2024 1:38:50 AM PDT by ComputerGuy (Heavily-medicated for your protection)
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To: Right_Wing_Madman

And what happens when the AI Unionizes?


5 posted on 05/25/2024 1:39:29 AM PDT by Fai Mao ( Starve the Beast and steal its food.)
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To: Sam77

All they are doing is printing instructions they get from the CIA. No one does real reporting any more.


6 posted on 05/25/2024 3:17:15 AM PDT by Fido969 (Y of ma)
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If the bots are programmed like the “journalists” have been in school, the Post will keep losing money.


7 posted on 05/25/2024 3:19:23 AM PDT by mikey_hates_everything
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To: Sam77

It maybe artificial, but at least there will be some intelligence there finally.


8 posted on 05/25/2024 3:47:31 AM PDT by MCF (If my home can't be my Castle, then it will be my Alamo)
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“The Washington Post: It looks like a newspaper, but isn’t.” - Chris Plante


9 posted on 05/25/2024 3:51:04 AM PDT by Flag_This (They're lying.)
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Wait. Why can’t you just hire “undocumented migrants”?


10 posted on 05/25/2024 4:30:59 AM PDT by VRW Conspirator (Big Pharma, Big tech, Big Comms, Big Oil, Big Defense Contractor, Big Banks - BUST THE TRUSTS)
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Dear AI-nn Landers - I think my EV hates me. I don't think I've done anything wrong to it, but it refuses to drive me to my ex-boyfriend's house after he called me a "lying, two-timing slut". I program his address into the GPS, but then it drives me to the spa. Please help, Misguided in Portland.
11 posted on 05/25/2024 5:03:46 AM PDT by moovova ("The NEXT ELECTION is the most important election of our lifetimes!“ LOL...)
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To: Sam77

Making the Washington Post even MORE unacceptable and LESS likely to attract fans.

I kinda like it.


12 posted on 05/25/2024 5:09:19 AM PDT by Maris Crane
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To: ComputerGuy

So, it won’t be any different than from before.


13 posted on 05/25/2024 5:18:39 AM PDT by lowbridge ("Let’s check with Senator Schumer before we run it" - NY Times)
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To: Sam77

So, does the </i>Washington Post</i> also intend to attract a readership of Leftist AI bots to keep the whole rickety and failing enterprise afloat?


14 posted on 05/25/2024 5:25:36 AM PDT by Rockingham (`)
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To: ComputerGuy

Precisely! Garbage in, garbage out.

The problem I see with AI replacing people, is that a person can go out and find a story, see what’s happening, interview people, take pictures etc. This all means leg work on location.

Just how is AI supposed to do all that? Granted, AI can write stories just as biased as a person, but AI still needs to get a few basic facts so it can manipulate those facts. And that requires being someplace.


15 posted on 05/25/2024 5:41:21 AM PDT by redfreedom (Joseph Stalin: "It does not mater how anyone votes, how votes are counted is what matters.")
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Basic sports news and business news has been written by expert computer software for at least the last five years.

Also, today, probably 25% of American journalists are former international students, who attended USA universities, who worked their way up through OPT or H1B employment programs, and now have Green Cards or Naturalized Citizenship.


16 posted on 05/25/2024 5:41:58 AM PDT by zeestephen (Trump "Lost" By 43,000 Votes - Spread Across Three States - GA, WI, AZ)
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This may sound crazy, but bear with me. AI gets its information from what’s on the net. If the Post runs stories based on AI getting information off the net, isn’t that basically plagiarism? And if, at some point, everyone tries to get information for their news stories from AI, wouldn’t there eventually be a lack of information? Someone, somewhere, has to do the research from which AI gathers its material.


17 posted on 05/25/2024 5:46:07 AM PDT by suthener ( )
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To: ComputerGuy
Since all those AI engines are the products of biased minds, there’s no way any of them can be purely objective.

Whereas the (human) journalists were paragons of impartiality?

Regards,

18 posted on 05/25/2024 5:56:55 AM PDT by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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Why even use AI?
Every article in the Post, except maybe the sports scores, is already written in advance in accord to the liberal talking points.

Take any topic and you could write the Post story right now.

Examples:

If Trump wins the election:
American democracy dies. Blacks and women will die under coming racist and misogynist dictatorship. Ballot fraud a likely factor in Biden’s loss.

If Mt.Rainier volcano blows:
Right wing climate policies cause massive destruction in Pacific Northwest.

Joe Biden dies:
America’s greatest president and architect of the new American Utopia passes in the company of his family of high achievers.

You know the template for any other story that the Post may cover.


19 posted on 05/25/2024 7:11:36 AM PDT by oldbill
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To: Sam77

Probably get better reporting.


20 posted on 05/25/2024 7:34:38 AM PDT by VTenigma (Conspiracy theory is the new "spoiler alert")
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