[LINK] News Corp hints AI future

[Stephen Loosley]

News Corp and western journalists have been publishing for years. How come no one knows about this? (Especially see the image of their works)


Indus Valley Pakistan

“High up in Pakistan's Indus Valley are some of the most intricate and diverse petroglyphs on earth.

These are the ancient Shatial glyphs on the Karakoram Highway in the Gilgit-Baltistan region.

Dating from the Stone Age to the birth of Islam, the glyphs cover boulders and boulders stretching for more than 100 kilometers.

The writings and designs cover various languages, religions and the symbolism of peoples dating back 10,000 years ... ”

Shatial Glyphs Highway :  https://i.imgur.com/nUjS2UJ.jpg


Jan and Karl write  ..

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.
>
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