The enshittification of commercial news media continues apace ...
"So you need human journalists. AI will not replace them. It might make one journalist do the work of 10, but you still need that journalist.
We're ... moving into a full newsroom based on AI."
#PeterFowler, 2025
https://www.rnz.co.nz/podcast/mediawatch?share=4df8ef6b-aef5-4a92-9f6a-44a3d314ae09
*shudder* Oh the hubris. This is exactly the wrong way to use any kind of AI. But especially the current crop of Trained MOLEs.
"If we could expand that, by drawing in local media and cooperating with each other, then that sort of model could be expanded to all the community stations nationally.
This is an essential public service - and a not-for-profit is a good way to go because if it becomes successful, the owners aren't just going to flick it off to a bigger company or shut it down during a downturn which is what's happening to a lot of our old newspapers."
#PeterFowler, 2024
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