[LINK] News Corp hints AI future

[Jan Whitaker]

The regional papers he owns are already full of AI generated content 
from somewhere according to recent stories. There's one Data Journalist. 
Yeah, right.

So who's going to write anything to feed the beast? Or will they just be 
stripping and better rewriting stuff they were just copying because AI 
can write grammatically and actually spell? cf Media Watch.

Without Harvey Norman ads, the HSun is just 2 sheets of toilet paper. Oh 
wait. Sports. There's always sports and a crossword puzzle. Forgive me.


On 11/08/2023 4:06 pm, Karl Auer wrote:
> On Fri, 2023-08-11 at 05:19 +0000, Stephen Loosley quoted:
>> Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation has recorded a steep 75% drop in
>> full-year profit but sees opportunities ahead as it expands the use
>> of cost-saving AI-produced content.
> That's like saving money on wool by using rayon. Or like saving money
> on porcelain by using pottery.
>
>> “We are already in active negotiations to establish a value for our
>> unique content sets and (intellectual property) that will play a
>> crucial role in the future of AI.”
> Oh, so they won't be wanting anyone just using their content to feed
> the AI beast without their permission? I wonder if they intend to
> extend the same courtesy to anyone else's content?
>
>> The company’s Australian arm recently disclosed it was producing
>> 3,000 articles a week using generative AI.
> ... and nobody could really tell the difference. I wonder how many of
> those indicated in the byline that they were partly or wholly
> generated?
>
> Regards, K.
>