Re:Automate the CEOs
by pclmulqdq on Thursday June 01, 2023 @09:18AM
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The kind of journalism that journalists want you to think they do - going out into war zones or directly interviewing people to find out new things of public interest - isn't replaceable by AI. The kind of journalism they actually do - hanging out on Twitter and repeating whatever goes trending there - is easily replaceable. They did this to themselves.
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That is certainly the view of many people who aren't writers or journalists. We'll see if it plays out. Jobs do tend to appear simpler than they really are when looking in from the outside.
>They did this to themselves.
And who set this bad direction? The CEO. This hardly adds to the case for not replacing him with an AI.
It is also the view of many working journalists, or at least the ones I know.
And it's not like some CEO decided "hey, let's pivot to churning out low-quality clickbait because I really like that stuff." They were forced to by the shift of ad budgets from print to more targeted advertising and the consolidation of news readership into a small number of well-known publications. Though I do agree that it's equally unfair to blame journalists for this.
> They were forced to by the shift of ad budgets from print to more targeted advertising
Indeed. As with almost everything else terrible about the world today, the root of the problem is targeted-advertising-based business models.
Re:Automate the CEOs
by pixelrevision on Friday June 02, 2023 @07:22AM
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It really has caused a race to the bottom anywhere it becomes the primary business model. Everyone hates it but no one’s got a solve to get people paying for things once they are “free”.
We'll see how successful the autogenerated clickbait farms end up being. But nothing you're saying is really making a case for the company needing a visionary human intelligence for its CEO. If the entire business model of the company is strictly determined by external conditions, then the whole thing seems ripe for automation.