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Re:The Toxoplasma of Rage (2014) by NateEag on Tuesday July 28, 2020 @08:15AM (#23974903)
The AI can't do that to journalists, because journalists have already done that to themselves.
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Re:The Toxoplasma of Rage (2014) by ethbro on Tuesday July 28, 2020 @08:34AM (#23975023)
There have been good and bad journalists since the beginning of journalism.
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Re:The Toxoplasma of Rage (2014) by marcus_holmes on Tuesday July 28, 2020 @09:11AM (#23975330)
This is not about good/bad journalism. A great journalist will turn in a fantastic story, get it approved and even on the front page, only to have it get few clicks because it can't compete for attention with the sensationalist crap.

This is about how humans first discovered that, given an infinite amount of reading material, we choose to read things that give us an emotional reaction. Any emotional reaction.

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Re:The Toxoplasma of Rage (2014) by paulie_a on Tuesday July 28, 2020 @08:21AM (#23974944)
While I don't know of I would call it journalism, computer generated articles are becoming increasingly prevelant
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Re:The Toxoplasma of Rage (2014) by afarrell on Tuesday July 28, 2020 @03:46PM (#23979873)
Who pays journalists? Companies that depend on ad revenue.

Individuals have agency. A set of persons responds to incentives.

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