'The Truth Is Paywalled.' Internet Vets Lament the State of the 'Open' Web

"The North Star in this system is that everything should be able to connect to everything else. That openness is really vital to the utility of the internet." - Vint Cerf

#internet #VintCerf #BrewsterKahle #CindyCohn #JonStokes #technology #tech

https://www.pcmag.com/news/the-truth-is-paywalled-internet-vets-lament-the-state-of-the-open-web

"I can easily imagine tools that take prompts like 'educate all the quotes', 'check all the block quotes for source links', 'make sure all the links in the piece work and are correct', add a features list widget by pulling specs from this press kit I just uploaded', 'check the photos for attribution', and turn them into staged changes that can be accepted or rejected after a brief preview or diff screen."

#JonStokes, 2023

https://www.jonstokes.com/p/heres-how-generative-ai-can-fix-the

Do we really need "#AI" to automate this stuff?

Here's How Generative AI Can Fix The News

One way or the other, we're on the verge of a media revolution thanks to generative AI. Here are specific, detailed proposals for how LLMs can make the media dramatically better.

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Can't help but think this is a classic case of a solution in search of a problem;

"I’ll want a Google Docs-like real-time editor interface where I can collaborate with other writers and with the LLM."

#JonStokes, 2023

https://www.jonstokes.com/p/heres-how-generative-ai-can-fix-the

I was using an interface like that 20 years ago, without the LLM, to collaboratively edit feature articles for the Aotearoa Indymedia front page with the rest of the team. An early version of Medium had a similar collaborative drafting system.

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Here's How Generative AI Can Fix The News

One way or the other, we're on the verge of a media revolution thanks to generative AI. Here are specific, detailed proposals for how LLMs can make the media dramatically better.

jonstokes.com

"... we were all better off when a reporter was someone with some hustle, deep connections in a community, and an ability to sniff out and piece together stories — especially stories that powerful people don’t want told. People who have those qualities should be able to be reporters regardless of whether they can even spell, much less reliably manifest 800 words in a classic inverse pyramid ..."

#JonStokes, 2023

https://www.jonstokes.com/p/heres-how-generative-ai-can-fix-the

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#NewsMedia #journalism

Here's How Generative AI Can Fix The News

One way or the other, we're on the verge of a media revolution thanks to generative AI. Here are specific, detailed proposals for how LLMs can make the media dramatically better.

jonstokes.com