The Washington Post's new-ish CEO has announced that the newspaper will be pivoting to artificial intelligence to turn sales around.
  • magnetosphere@fedia.io
    10·
    6 months ago

    “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.

  • Rolando@lemmy.world
    6·
    6 months ago

    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

  • maculata@aussie.zone
    61·
    6 months ago

    Righto. All the humans are fired eh? Great. I’m sure that lead to some wonderful outcomes.

      • maculata@aussie.zone
        61·
        6 months ago

        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.