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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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[-] EnsignRedshirt@hexbear.net 40 points 6 months ago

It drives me insane! People keep talking about what AI is going to do while ignoring that it currently doesn’t do anything. Every application is just a tech demo or a needless augmentation of something that already existed. Anyone who has “lost their job” to AI was already going to be fired and got “we replaced you with AI” as an excuse. Nonsense all the way down.

[-] TheBroodian@hexbear.net 18 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Same story as with nft's, it was always tremendously obvious on its face to be an absolute scam that had no practical purpose or value, yet inflated to nonsensical proportions nevertheless - all of which was also incredibly infuriating to me