Execs at G/O Media, owner of Gizmodo, Jezebel, and others, say the company will publish more AI-generated stories despite blowback for botched first attempts
Why G/O Media thinks we should have more stories written by bots. — In early July, managers at G/O media … Bluesky: @danilo.redeem-tomorrow.com . Twitter: @kylebrussell , @ryanvailbrown , @dkthomp , @pkafka , and @pkafka Bluesky: @danilo.redeem-tomorrow.com : Private equity buying the corpse of Gawker—the most opinionated publisher of its day—and turning it into an AI content mill really captures the sweep of the last technology cycle in one anecdote [embedded post] Twitter: Kyle Russell / @kylebrussell : I'm as AI-forward as they come but they've been doing room temperature IQ moves here These tools should be adopted bottom up by people trying to do great work, not imposed by management without editorial direction @ryanvailbrown : it's important to understand that the executive leadership at G/O can't see more than a few feet in front of themselves, let alone around corners. https://www.vox.com/... [image] Derek Thompson / @dkthomp : @pkafka @ibogost pretty wild that we're passing out of a generation of journalism where young writers were implicitly told that the first stone on the path to success in journalism was writing articles about what time shows are on TV and whether Star Wars Ep 4 comes before or after Star Wars Ep 3 Peter Kafka / @pkafka : @DKThomp @ibogost Sigh. https://www.vox.com/... [image] Peter Kafka / @pkafka : New from me: G/O Media caused an uproar when it used bots to write stories for Gizmodo and other sites this month. Now it's going to do it again. “It is absolutely a thing we want to do more of.” https://www.vox.com/...