I get that’s it’s Buzzfeed and all, but seriously, this is fucked up. The fact that 180 writers can be replaced by a computer program is disturbing. What happens when other writing jobs get replaced? Employers don’t give a shit about the quality of your work as long as they get revenue, so it’s not implausible that this won’t stop here. Will it be limited to news websites? It’s not like publishers print books out of a love for the arts. They’re looking for a paycheck just like the rest of us. What happens when most writers are replaced? Will it become all of them? Will culture stagnate for the rest of history while algorithms take over everything, just so publishers don’t have to pay an actual human being?
Think about all that before you laugh at the funny click bait website doing this. This could be very bad for consumers **and** employees.
I got the chance to work with one of these text generation AIs just prior to their commercial-use launch. It was great for workflow.
You could put an idea in and it would generate 3-5 topical outlines. You could expand each outline in a paragraph generator or drop the list into a blog generator. The articles wrote themselves in about 5 minutes, and advanced generators included source links!
There were headline generators, technical writing generators, all types of shenanigans could be had. They still need to be checked for content-awareness and mild editing but it was all better than a generic buzzfeed story.
Buzzfeed content has always been garbage anyways. So this is kind of a perfect fit for them and the story is kind of a perfect fit for any Luddite looking to do some fear mongering.
THESIDPROF says
Pathetic
cosmoboy says
And nobody notices…
BigOmet says
They didn’t already do that?
GetlostMaps says
Rules 3, 4, 5.
RichS816 says
BuzzfAId
TheMicMic says
How can we tell the difference?
SluggishPrey says
That just prove how low their standards are.
JOMEGA_BONOVICH says
I get that’s it’s Buzzfeed and all, but seriously, this is fucked up. The fact that 180 writers can be replaced by a computer program is disturbing. What happens when other writing jobs get replaced? Employers don’t give a shit about the quality of your work as long as they get revenue, so it’s not implausible that this won’t stop here. Will it be limited to news websites? It’s not like publishers print books out of a love for the arts. They’re looking for a paycheck just like the rest of us. What happens when most writers are replaced? Will it become all of them? Will culture stagnate for the rest of history while algorithms take over everything, just so publishers don’t have to pay an actual human being?
Think about all that before you laugh at the funny click bait website doing this. This could be very bad for consumers **and** employees.
sugar_addict002 says
They’re stealing the productivity gains of technology again.
Bawbawian says
Man it sucks that Bob Duca is out of work he really needed the health insurance.
jrock0479 says
r/aboringdystopia
walkingtalkingdread says
> Humans would still have their role in providing “cultural currency” and “inspired prompts”
I have no fucking clue what cultural currency means.
goodgollymizzmolly says
I got the chance to work with one of these text generation AIs just prior to their commercial-use launch. It was great for workflow.
You could put an idea in and it would generate 3-5 topical outlines. You could expand each outline in a paragraph generator or drop the list into a blog generator. The articles wrote themselves in about 5 minutes, and advanced generators included source links!
There were headline generators, technical writing generators, all types of shenanigans could be had. They still need to be checked for content-awareness and mild editing but it was all better than a generic buzzfeed story.
Maxfunky says
Buzzfeed content has always been garbage anyways. So this is kind of a perfect fit for them and the story is kind of a perfect fit for any Luddite looking to do some fear mongering.
storstygg says
Look up any celeb and check out all the “wiki” sites that come up in the search results – all garbage AI copy stuffed with keywords