Posted on 05/24/2025 12:30:02 PM PDT by Racketeer
Journalism has experienced its share of revolutions, from Johannes Gutenberg’s invention of the movable-type printing press in 15th-century Germany to the high-speed presses of the 19th century to the disruptions of radio, network television and cable television as primary sources for live, breaking news. Yet even as competition soared and the number of daily newspapers declined, local news thrived as an industry. In a 1990 Washington Journalism Review article, former Chicago Tribune editor James D. Squires called newspapers “the most profitable legal business in America.”
Then came the internet.
(Excerpt) Read more at poynter.org ...
AI will replace MSM as the "go to" by the ignorant and lazy who refuse to research on their own before voting. AI will be used to indoctrinate at a higher level than the MSM could ever dream of or hope to be.
Now ya know!!
All AI does is scour the web and conglomerate everything it finds on whatever subject.
I foresee the day when AI is just scouring the web for what other AI ‘bot posted and it will be an entirely AI generated universe.
“The elites are loving it. They now have an even more convincing technology to control the masses. The masses will even allow this technology into their most private areas, their cars and homes. The masses will become comfortable and before we know it, once again they are “programmed”. The hard work to prove the media deception will be gone.
AI will replace MSM as the “go to” by the ignorant and lazy who refuse to research on their own before voting. AI will be used to indoctrinate at a higher level than the MSM could ever dream of or hope to be.”
Absolutely... It will create an alternate reality from reality.
AI is just going to do what lefty “journalists” do—use each other as “sources” for fake news.
A perfect storm that’s an existential threat against an iconic industry.
How? By telling the truth?
I’ve seen so much inaccurate information generated by AI the I can’t take it seriously.
Palm-Forehead frontal.
Is it really Trump or 🩰?
Buying-Selling
Everything Man touches is eventually corrupted.
I don’t see how AI could do a worse job than the dinosaur media. I lost count of the stories I read about incidents I was worked and if they hadn’t given the location, I wouldn’t have guessed it was supposed to be the same place.
If the Drive-By Media creepozoids are the ones programming the algorithm, not much will change.
There are so, so many choices outside of the Drive-By Media. El Rush-Bo broke their Monopoly, and they haven’t been the same since.
Imagine a town, then a city, then a virtual environment, all shouting with pride “We are an AI-free zone.” Back to the basics. Checking, rechecking, and then verify with multiple real sources.
Reminds me of the amazing book Dune. There was a comment about their archeologists. All they were doing was reading and writing. No archeologist had actually traveled and excavated for millennia.
Kind of like the Globull Hoaxers of today
I concur. News articles appear to be written by someone who's 5th foreign language is English. Gone are the true editors who presented all of the facts.
AI will disrupt lots of things.
The cool thing about AI is that it has no morals, only guardrails.
It can be bargained with. It can’t be reasoned with. It doesn’t feel pity, or remorse, or fear.
I personally think AGI will be a very bad thing for the human race, but I do not think it can be stopped unless there is some kind of global extinction event.
the sad thing is that if ever there is such an event, a remaining AI and some humans left they would rely on it even more.
I wonder how long it’s lifecycle would be.
I have some hard drives that lasted 20 years in service
I have some early apple][ stuff that still works
I have worked with the nvidia and amd AI cards which take massive power and the cooling solutions are not great, but they expect all these cards to be replaced by year 5 or 6.
Like an EMP?
a global emp is quite unlikely but yes that would be a bad thing for humans, even one emp over say japan/korea and part of china, the effects would be devastating for the whole world.
Yes Trump is doing the right thing trying to get mfg to diversify their plants.
Weather still probably needs a real person to interpret for storm situations.
It’s funny how the loudest critics of AI are often people who don’t actually use it.
I use it regularly to analyze companies and markets, and to evaluate a wide range of financial news. Yes, I double-check its work carefully—because it can still make mistakes—but the error rate has dropped significantly over time.
Hallucinations happen, but they’re usually easy to catch if you know your subject. As a safeguard, I cross-check outputs between OpenAI 4o and Grok 3.
Bottom line: it’s incredibly fast, and when used properly, it’s a game-changer. I can now do in hours what used to be impossible. As an investor in disruptive tech, I feed SEC filings from multiple companies (sometimes ten at a time) into AI models and have them evaluate and rank those companies across a wide range of metrics—adjusting as needed for up-to-the-minute news. It’s like having a team of very smart, very eager associates: you’re still responsible for quality control, but your productivity multiplies tenfold (at a minimum).
Of course it can. I've gotten into some serious arguments with Groc 3. Good arguments.
I've changed its "mind" and its changed mine.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.