And of course, any AI embodies the biases of the people who coded it. The press has been normalizing fascism for decades with their idiotic false neutrality.
The click economy has already effectively done this, and it will get worse with AI. The NYT is already this. The right are snowflakes and have pushed back so hard that the bias meter is basically approaching committee by the John Birch society,
Just a handful of journalists with integrity left…. Maga and trump are trying to turn every mainstream news outlet into fox! Imagine that all day fox propaganda bullshit, not knowing fact from fiction! Talk about lobotomizing your intellect 😂
This is essentially what social media is doing too.
We have reporters and media writing and posting articles that will get the most likes and/or hits.
They have no intention of telling the unbiased truth.
Never mind that the slant of this "bias meter" is guaranteed to be biased in its design so that "fair" = neoliberal/center-right/pro-plutocrat/pro-empire. And of course AOC (for example) would rate as far left as actual neonazis rate far right.
Newsweek—obv very different from old Newsweek—runs one beneath its articles. A nice reminder when I click on one of their pieces what kind of take I’m getting.
The thing that stands out to me is Soon-Shiong appears to really believe he has some novel solution that the journalism profession has somehow missed. But it will most likely make it far worse. Another Death of Expertise moment.
AI makes people lazy and mediocre. Brains will atrophy. Humans are capable of so much. We are brilliant. Are we going to cede it all to computers? No heart and soul, just profit?
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We have reporters and media writing and posting articles that will get the most likes and/or hits.
They have no intention of telling the unbiased truth.
Garbage In, Garbage Out