The Washington Post is planning to let amateur writers submit columns — with the help of AI

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• reddig33@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Sounds like a great way to lose even more subscribers.

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  • devdoggy@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Well, I sure won’t subscribe!

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• harrys_balzac@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  So, WaPo is basically now Substack or Medium but worse?

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  • LodeMike@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    With a forced subscription!

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• Reverendender@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I’m sure they pay handsomely too, right? Right?

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• Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I’m not against the idea of hiring new columnists, but why do they NEED to use AI?

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  • i_stole_ur_taco@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    My company (not in media) keeps bleating we need to adopt AI everywhere we can because otherwise “we’ll get left behind”.

    No, clarifying questions are not entertained.

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  • Etterra@discuss.online ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Because some rich jackasses at the top hate paying employees.

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• Twitches@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  This goes beyond not subscribing or unsubscribing. I will never trust an article out of there again

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• wanderwisley@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Subscribe to the onion. All facts no lies or bias.

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  • AdmiralWhiskersIV@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I signed up for the paper copy. Best decision I made in years.

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• Drbreen@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  What could go wrong?

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