Who will survive the AI writing revolution? Wasn’t technology meant to improve our quality of life, rather than increase quantity of output? Opinion by HeatherMallick
As the British novelist Kingsley Amis once said of increasing the number of universities, “more will mean worse.” As well there will be a non-stop volcanic eruption of bad journalism and publishing, but perhaps readers won’t notice or mind., partly because corporate, government and education jargon is intended to outwit journalists hungry for an airy word or two that might start a social media firestorm.
Overworked reporters tape events for automatic digital transcription. The story writes itself. You’ll see news stories with entire paragraphs of jargon-laden quotes from both sides, in an effort to erase the appearance of bias. If this is reporting now, AI can do it better., “For the purposes of journalism, [AI] can create vast amounts of material — words, pictures, sounds and videos — very quickly. The problem is, they have absolutely no commitment to the truth.
Her conclusion is agonizing if comedic. “We have learned nothing from the past 20 years of rapidly deployed and poorly stewarded social media technologies that have exacerbated societal and democratic problems rather than improved them.”is a Toronto-based columnist covering current affairs for the Star. @HeatherMallick
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