Large British Newspaper (The Daily Telegraph) to be Composed by Microsoft Chatbots Instead of Journalists?
THIS morning we saw this report about "internal tool called Pulse AI" (at The Telegraph) and unless they just called search software "AI" (because the media calls everything "AI" these days) they might be using bots to produce slop and pretend that this is reporting. "Telegraph director of technology Dylan Jacques says new products are boosting engagement."
Well, "engagement" is not accuracy or quality. What do you value? You want engagement? Then turn the Web site into a pornography site or pull a "Page 3" (The Sun). What would that accomplish?
An associate says "The Telegraph is about to flush itself down the toilet by dedicating its site to slop."
"That is mixed news. While I have no good will towards the paper, I do not wish to see any paper fall and be replaced with slop or a mixture of slop and real news."
"But there is a race to the bottom quality-wide," I responded, "and Telegraph was on sale. It remains unclear what the buyer's motivation was."
"It is somewhat more clear now," this associate says.
Elon Musk has recently demonstrated it's possible to 'monetise' sites by destroying them for dictators (who can reciprocate with bailout and policy on sale), not to mention shameless self-promotion (good or bad; "there's no such thing as bad publicity," they say). By bribing FSFE, for instance, Microsoft has gotten a lot of "value". It's controlled 'opposition' now. It's also without credibility. It is probably the (near) end of FSFE because, according to LWN (a few weeks ago), they "are seeing declines in fundraising while also being affected by inflation."
Our associate says that the "FSF needs to finish taking on FSFE over the name misappropriation." FSFE is a Microsoft front group; FSF is not. █