1mo ago

The Washington Post is planning to let amateur writers submit columns — with the help of AI

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Sounds like a great way to lose even more subscribers.
- Well, I sure won't subscribe!
So, WaPo is basically now Substack or Medium but worse?
- With a mandatory subscription!
I’m sure they pay handsomely too, right? Right?
I'm not against the idea of hiring new columnists, but why do they NEED to use AI?
- My company (not in media) keeps bleating we need to adopt AI everywhere we can because otherwise “we’ll get left behind”.
  No, clarifying questions are not entertained.
- Because some rich jackasses at the top hate paying employees.
- Probably so it can take all the free articles people submit and regurgitate them back with a similar robotic style
This goes beyond not subscribing or unsubscribing. I will never trust an article out of there again
Subscribe to the onion. All facts no lies or bias.
- I signed up for the paper copy. Best decision I made in years.
What could go wrong?

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