If anyone is looking for parallels here I’d actually point to Buzzfeed who a few years ago did have really good dedicated reporters and reasons to visit the website and now I’m pretty sure just exists as a Moldovan malware site that gives you AI quizzes on “which futurama cyborg is zodiac?”
God this is so grim
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2. Replace journalists with A.I.
3. ???
4. Profit!
As if the “why” isn’t implied. Just makes me cringe.
what about "the AI dick shrink"
"I'm absolutely thrilled to be joining the staff of The Washington Post during such an exciting and transformative time in journalism. It’s an incredible honor to be part of a newsroom that is committed to excellence, innovation, and impactful storytelling!"
It sounds like a bad joke but that's just how things are now.
In the end we live in a world where all the reporting is terrible and the NYT and WSJ (news side only, the opinion sections are complete trash) are the least terrible of the lot.
NYTimes and NPR were my sources for news for years, but now I’m looking for better ones. I’m following good journalists on here, hoping I figure something out.
the fact that it's happening to wapo is really grim!!!
by way of pattern matching