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1 posted on 01/14/2023 2:55:42 AM PST by DUMBGRUNT
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“a grim inflection point in an already-bleak job market for journalists.”

Well now... they could learn to code but GPT does that too. When metaphorically idiots screw the pooch they cant get the pudding till they have eaten their meat. This is universal justice and unfortunately many will suffer.


2 posted on 01/14/2023 3:00:32 AM PST by LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget
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GPT is able to produce a very fluent text at the level of an English professor, but is otherwise pretty stupid. Perfect replacement for journalists.


3 posted on 01/14/2023 3:47:01 AM PST by Krosan
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I think I've been dealing with this from Adobe for the past year... I downloaded After Effects and never even activated it because my laptop didn't have the 32GB of Ram needed. I tried for 6 months to cancel the $23 a month “rental” and never once was I in contact with an actual human being. Always computer generated responses even in the “Chat” windows!! I finally had to go thru my bank to stop the payments!!! Never again will I do business with Adobe!!!!
4 posted on 01/14/2023 4:03:10 AM PST by sit-rep ( )
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“It definitely can’t do the job of a journalist,”

Yes. It might not make sense to to the AI to apply journalistic principles unevenly. Thus the demon party would be in a world of hurt.


6 posted on 01/14/2023 4:22:58 AM PST by TalBlack (We have a Christian duty and a patriotic duty. God help us.)
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“It definitely can’t do the job of a journalist,” Ryan wrote of ChatGPT. “To say so diminishes the act of journalism itself.”

Once it has been programmed to obfuscate and twist facts, look out, Ryan.

10 posted on 01/14/2023 4:42:54 AM PST by TangoLimaSierra (⭐⭐To the Left, The Truth is Right Wing Violence⭐⭐)
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People often speak of Automation replacing low-level jobs. Burger flippers, Assembly line workers, etc. You know they want self-driving cars so that they can fire all those truck drivers. That’s a huge job category.

Computers are replacing lawyers and journalists and a lot of other white-collar jobs. And the capabilities will increase and the jobs that are endanger will expand. This isn’t going to get better and, no, humans are not all going to become gainfully employed as robot technicians.

The need for human labor is decreasing. People will have idle hands. What happens then?


11 posted on 01/14/2023 4:44:22 AM PST by ClearCase_guy (Government always tries to steal freedom; People should always try to stop Government.)
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Leftists whined about “living wage” for so long, industry innovation and free market enterprise is responding.

I read an article a couple years back about one of the big agricultural schools in California running a pilot program to use machines and AI for crops. From tilling, seeding, tending, weeding, harvesting, no human field workers required beyond maybe a handful of technicians, mechanics, a supervisor.

I read that, and other stories like it, with a bad Brooklyn accent in my head that said “I gotcher fifteen dollars an hour right here, buddy!”


12 posted on 01/14/2023 4:49:18 AM PST by normbal (normbal. somewhere in socialist occupied America ‘tween MD and TN)
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It presents a whole new meaning to ‘fake news.’


13 posted on 01/14/2023 4:50:24 AM PST by iontheball
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CNET bots publish articles and other bots generate page hits to those articles. Sounds like an ad revenue scam.


17 posted on 01/14/2023 6:02:24 AM PST by fso301
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Maybe nobody read it.


20 posted on 01/14/2023 7:34:49 AM PST by cp124 (80% of everything is fake or a lie.)
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How are you going to get AI to lie to support Democrats? For that reason alone, I don’t see it replacing “journalists” I mean it is supposed to be intelligent, right?


21 posted on 01/14/2023 9:37:05 AM PST by Colorado Doug (Now I know how the Indians felt to be sold out for a few beads and trinkets)
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How are you going to get AI to lie to support Democrats? For that reason alone, I don’t see it replacing “journalists” I mean it is supposed to be intelligent, right?


22 posted on 01/14/2023 9:37:05 AM PST by Colorado Doug (Now I know how the Indians felt to be sold out for a few beads and trinkets)
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