The Washington Post Tells Staff It’s Pivoting to AI

The Washington Post's new-ish CEO has announced that the newspaper will be pivoting to artificial intelligence to turn sales around.

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"This is all repairable, all doable, particularly if we do it together."

Translation: even though this bad decision was made without your input, we want to be able to blame you when it fails.
Righto. All the humans are fired eh? Great. I’m sure that lead to some wonderful outcomes.
- That's literally the same argument that's been made for every tech advancement in history.
  
  I'm happy to entertain specific problems with THIS tech, but keeping people doing a job that doesn't actually require a human is no different than having people dig a ditch and then fill it back in repeatedly.
  
  Proper journalists are massively different than ditch diggers.
  
  One cannot have a closed loop of AI as a newspaper. At least, not for another 50 years until the language models acquire enough subtly. Even then, I ain’t gonna read that shit. I want a human take on human problems.
After being personally tapped by WaPo owner Jeff Bezos for the gig, Lewis began working as publisher of the newspaper at the beginning of 2024.

Wait, I thought Besos was going to be hands-off of the Washington Post? ThatWasALie.jpg

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