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Today, I read a very very cheap "interview" in a news magazine. They interviewed an AI model about investment tips. They wanted to appear meta and witty because they said something like "you are recommending Microsoft stocks probably only because it is invested in your company. Hahaha got you". But the interview was very sad.

There was a time I considered to become journalist. I am not smart enough for a career in acadamia. But I think my career will be staying a NEET as long as I live. Lol. Working and studying was a nightmare for my mental health. I have no other choice.

I could imagine AI could replace many texts from journalists. Most content is pretty mediocre. It will be a pretty hard time for journalists. Maybe investigative journalism is still the savest form of journalism. It will be interesting how AI will impact independent journalism. Currently, the AI companies develop very huge modells for all types of work. Whereas small modells trained for specific work and trained with data from let's say a small company would be way more efficient. And open source technology like China does it has a huge potential. Maybe independent journalists will have their own AI modells in order to produce content.

Most mainstream coverage is probably easy to replace. Journalists have to correct and factcheck claims though. It will be interesting to see (or a complete nightmare) how AI coverage will be biased. Probably pretty much in favor of the rich. And Russia already feeds the internet with fake news that the AI companies use for training their modells.

Newspapers will have an even harder time to earn money. However, local newspapers are under most pressure. And I am not sure whether AI can cover local events that well. I am not sure whether humans will have much value in politics coverage in one or two decades. The trend seems to be in favor of billionaires. And well not only buying news outlets will be a thing. Also replacing critical humans with machines that spread exactly the narratives they want might be the neestl trend.

This is why it is so important to support your local Sanctioned Suicide reporters on the newest shit about politics. Even by donating 5 bucks a month, you are contributing to an informative and balanced politics coverage on the most trustworthy news page on the web. Don't waste your money by donating money to @DarkRange55 by the way. He won't need that money anyway. We currently try to get Paul Krugman to write an op-ed letter on Sanctioned Suicide politics subforum. I hope Darkrange55 can use his connections to persuade him to publish a letter on here. It might be risky for his career, but the growth potential on this website is massive. We try to headhunt some people from Substack to create something new on here...
And if anyone tries to sue me over this post. It is obviously satire...
 
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Back when the HBO show "The Newsroom" was on, the creator, Aaron Sorkin noted that his production was actively employing more journalists than CNN. CNN had been laying off journalists, but Sorkin was hiring them as consultants to make a realistic depiction of the newsroom on his show. He found it sad that his fictional show was more interested in journalism than real news channels.

I'm not even saying news was always above board... but it definitely nose-dived at the point where news became a for-profit industry. In the olden days of 3-channels to watch on TV in the US... news was considered a community service loss-leader so the networks employed people and let them do their thing for the community interest and didn't bother with profits. But at some point networks realized they could turn a profit by focusing on certain things or reporting more salacious or violent stories... and it became about being first and most exciting than doing real reporting and news gathering... and once the profit-motive set in, it was game over for most real journalism because the network with the best ratings would have more resources.
 
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