I'm sure that lowering the quality of the product will be a good financial decision.
this post was submitted on 23 May 2024
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Bezos owns it, they don't need to make money, just keep up their status.
This will do neither.
It was for Amazon.
A ton of companies are going to destroy their own products by replacing workers with AI and it's extremely funny to watch.
Yep, using AI for news is basically using the work of other human journalists. There's only a limited amount AI could do by itself (weather reports, short sports blurbs, stenographing police/IDF press conferences...), so they're just going to turn WaPo into more of an aggregator while other outlets produce the real news.
At that stage, why even pay for their product then?
The written word isnt worth jack shit anymore; the eyeballs just arent there any more. Companies see a way out through nascent AI which has peaked already at "garbage fire" and now a whole generation of Journos are gonna have to pivot to Tik Tok dancing to earn a living.
What a time to be alive
Good thing Amazon bought WaPo to protect journalism from the predatory practices of capitalism. Surely, that was their only motive.
the enshitiffication continues.
Why would someone pay money or view ads to read some trash written by an AI when they can just ask the AI directly for free?