I don't think the relevance of the phenomenon called Gell-Mann Amnesia for the news industry has been taken into account in media critique of AI*
Obviously people in media have little incentive to start a discourse about the fact that the veracity and fidelity of large swathes of their reporting is immaterial. But that's why it can be replaced by a bullshit machine that only approximates veracity by chance.
There is ample redundancy to be automated.
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*Artificial Imitation #labNotes
I'm not even thinking about punditry, because the incentive structures there could favor accruing prestige towards a face and a voice.
But I think that the structure of newsrooms is going to be heavily impacted soon. Mere regurgitating of text input along genre conventions looks like the one application of LLMs that has both a credible use case and a user base (newspaper owners) happy to invest in tech to replace labor.
And that probably has significant second order effects, see McLuhan
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