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> If everyone gets their news from chatGPT

But I've just explained that ChatGPT can't actually produce news articles. I can't ask ChatGPT what happened today, and if I could it would be because a journalist went out and told ChatGPT what happened.

>>insani+(OP)
So at first ChatGPT will copy journalists. Then journalists will stop working because nobody pays them. Then there will be no news. Some people may look at that situation and decide to start a new news business but that business will fail because ChatGPT will immediately rip it off. The end game is just no news other than volunteers.

>>HDThor+TH
> So at first ChatGPT will copy journalists.

You still literally have not explained how this works. ChatGPT could write a news article, but it's not going to actively discover new social phenomena or interview people on the street. Niche journalism will continue having demand for the sole reason that AI can't reliably surface new and interesting content.

So... again, how does a pre-trained transformer model scoop a journalist's investigation?

> Then journalists will stop working because nobody pays them.

How is that any different than the status-quo on the internet? The cost of quality information has been declining long before AI existed. Thousands of news publications have gone out of business or been bought out since the dawn of the internet, before ChatGPT was even a household name. Since you haven't really identified what makes AI unique in this situation, it feels like you're conflating the general declining demand for journalism with AI FOMO.

>>smolde+RQ
AI labs are working on and largely already have generative ai that can be actively updated. The generative ai scoops real journalists stories by watching their feed. This isn’t very different from the current status quo, it’s just a continuation of an already shitty situation for news organizations. If their revenue decreases even more than it already has they will cease to exist. Niche journalism barely has any demand today, it won’t take much more reduction in demand for it to not be worth the cost to produce. Just a few more people using big tech products as their news feed instead of the news organizations themselves is all it would take.

You can say that the people getting their news from the tech products will switch to paying news organizations in some way if the news starts to disappear but I highly doubt it seeing how people treat news today. And if it that does happen they’ll switch back again to the ai products as the centralization it can provide is valuable.

>>HDThor+RZ
Updated how? By what? Who is going out and investigating the world to write about? An AI does not have LEGS it can not go outside and go talk to someone and interview them, it can't attend a press conference without human assistance.

You have not at all explained how an AI is going to somehow write a news post about something that has just happened.

>>insani+QR1
Without money there will be no one investigating, there will be no news. If someone creates news it will be immediately ripped off so the only stable state here is no news at all

>>HDThor+hW1
omg dude how HOW are you not understanding?

>>HDThor+hW1
How is that an AI problem? How is it even a problem in the first place?