AI generated news articles have become as terrible as they are ubiquitous. my work PC is pretty locked down and vanilla AF. sometimes i look at it to see what's up through that lens.

anyway, the irony (or absolute fucking inevitability) with the "news" is this narrative from like the 1990s about how journalism was too expensive to continue on as it had been, with "The Internet" cutting into ad revenues. so we've seen countless mergers and consolidations and closings over the last decades, until all that remains is a skeleton crew labor force of Zero Journalists keeping these legacy media content machines farting out noises where headlines reference pictures not contained or even linked in the article. just some generic slop layout template of [3 sentences], [picture], [5 sentences], [picture]... into eternity and 80% of the time, theres not even a common thread to follow through any of it. the old physical papers had constraints on spacing and layouts, but it's all become untethered as the incentive is to keep a story's copy going longer and longer to maintain the screen.

like, journalism under capitalism has always been a shit show, but now that they've gutted it of humans, it's not even baseline comprehensible. like eventually people won't even have a reason to look anymore, because it'll be incoherent symbols in no discernable order poorly representing a false reality with comments full of bots arguing passed each other.

and this will be the content that LLMs scrape to provide answers to people.