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Opinion | Will A.I. Ever Live Up to Its Hype? (www.nytimes.com)

submitted 5 months ago by db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] sudo42@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

The NY times has a vested interest in discrediting AI, specifically LLMs (what they seem to be referring to) since journalism is a huge target here since it’s pretty easy to get LLMs to generate believable articles.

The writers and editors may be against AI, but I’m betting the owners of the NYT would LOVE to have an AI that would simply re-phrase “news” (ahem) “borrowed” from other sources. The second upper management thinks this is possible, the humans will be out on their collective ears.

[–] abhibeckert@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I’m betting the owners of the NYT would LOVE to have an AI that would simply re-phrase “news” (ahem) “borrowed” from other sources

No way. NYT depends on their ability to produce high quality exclusive content that you can't access anywhere else.

In your hypothetical future, NYT's content would be mediocre and no better than a million other news services. There's no profit in that future.