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The WaPo told its staff that it's pivoting to AI. "AI everywhere in our newsroom" to turn around its dismal financial situation. (futurism.com)

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Already facing scandal, the Washington Post's new-ish CEO and publisher, Will Lewis, has announced that the newspaper will be pivoting to artificial intelligence to turn around its dismal financial situation.

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[-] Parsani@hexbear.net 34 points 6 months ago

Can't wait for wapo journalism to be even lower quality

[-] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 24 points 6 months ago

A near future op-ed: "Some people worry about AI's need for 'large' amounts of energy and the possibility of this tech negatively impacting the written word. Those fears are misplaced. With any brand new revolutionary tech teething problems are to be expected. Furthermore..."

The bold face name writer is soon forced to concede that he receives a "minor stipend" from aiJornalism.com. That's a big lie. They gave him stock options. Not only that. He has to admit that "to improve text quality AI was minimally used." Which was another big lie. aiJornalism emailed the article to him. The "op-ed" was effectively their press release.