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[–] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Axel Springer also messed about with AI slop at Politico, leading to the union filing a dispute.

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[Axel Springer CEO Mathias Döpfner] used to write books. But he’s got a machine doing it for him now, and he’s convinced you can’t write for yourself either. Even if it’s your job. Get with the programme!

Döpfner sounds like a genuinely dogshit writer if a text extruder managed to impress him

[–] Jrockwar@feddit.uk 4 points 2 months ago

Text extruder, I love that 🤣

[–] yesman@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

With the AI summaries robbing media of clicks you've got a situation where both the writers and the readers of Business Insider are robots. Brilliant.

[–] fullsquare@awful.systems 7 points 2 months ago

is that this circular economy i hear so much about?

[–] istewart@awful.systems 5 points 2 months ago

Business Insider so poop-tier, I tacitly assumed this was happening already