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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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[-] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml 23 points 6 months ago

It's first major automation in a pretty long time, and to boot, it's in a multiple fields which were previously thought to be impossible to automate: writing, art, etc. So there is large untapped potential in reducing variable capital, every capitalist immediately gets hardon on the mere thought of that.