john whitehouse @existentialfish.com · Feb 2 239 likes 30 replies
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dirtbag journalism
Cannot imagine having the audacity (or the privilege) to brag about not doing my job, at my job, for the entire world to see
AltText: " Democrats are buzzing about Shapiro's new memoir, "Where We Keep the Light." So, after uploading a PDF of the text, we asked Chat GPT to write a New Yorker-style review, with a focus on prose and literary qualities. The result:
The result: (fart sound)
lol I’m a journalist now!
they invented a way to answer a question that is way more pathetic than using a magic 8 ball
more like "trashxios" amirite
Proud of being ignorant, proud of failing to do their jobs which is write about things
It can't even do that, can it? Iirc it can only look at samples of something that long A human who doesn't feel like reading the book could do that too...
how do i go about getting paid to do nothing like these guys are
Why would anyone keep reading a publication if they can just type prompts directly into a robot chat and it'll pretend to be their friend too
Utter slobs.
How fucking pathetic.
“We were gonna try journalism, but that costs big bills.”
I mean, at least they were up front that they got an LLM to generate slop for them That they don't understand why that's the reason we're all pointing and laughing at them is the larger problem
Jesus Christ
It's ok to just not read the book. Really, it's fine.
Axios just outright admitting they don't have anybody around with actual writing chops
archived here archive.is/ZRydz
Why would anyone pay for this content?
They're trying to advertise their product. From what I can tell, it's Grammarly but for journalism and also there's an LLM integration. www.axioshq.com/features/ai
What?
It’s just easier to quit your job folks
To be strictly fair, that's about the amount of attention Shapiro's book deserves.
What are they even bothering to claim to be journalists for at this point
i also know a plural number of democrats but none of them are buzzing, put it in the newspaper
To be honest it reads the same as the rest of the Axios article
Finally, robots are doing the jobs too painfully boring for humans to do.
Losers who use "AI" are so loud about it on the internet, especially when those losers are corporations
FFS