Sadly manners, ethics and kindness have all but disappeared. Yet do to others as you would have them do to you at all times, including any one who is self-employed,is a good mantra to go by.
Both Google and twitter/X are now offering AI sifted news digests on many subjects. Will there be any change in editing of publications, when AI completely takes over all routine editing work? Will it leave the human "editors" more time to be "human", or will it simply make them all redundant, along with journalists? Will this increase subjective groupthink/fashionable bias, or increase objectivity?
Opposition to AI is partly a repeat of the Luddite opposition to the industrial revolution in textiles. On the one hand, technology makes a cheaper product that is more affordable than the human cottage industry it replaces, and thus enables "more people to buy more". Given a choice of handmade expensive clothing or cheap machine produced stuff, most people go for the cheaper options to cut bills.
I think even before AI things were doomed for us because the biggest problem is someone will always be willing to work for free. That's it in a nutshell. So there's no incentive to improve rates or the conditions that we're working under. None at all.
I’m sorry you’re having to fight for what should be common decency and that notion we seem to forget - professionalism. I have no real practical words to offer other than the (perhaps naive) hope that there are still good people out there doing good business and that at some point the tides will turn!
Both Google and twitter/X are now offering AI sifted news digests on many subjects. Will there be any change in editing of publications, when AI completely takes over all routine editing work? Will it leave the human "editors" more time to be "human", or will it simply make them all redundant, along with journalists? Will this increase subjective groupthink/fashionable bias, or increase objectivity?
Opposition to AI is partly a repeat of the Luddite opposition to the industrial revolution in textiles. On the one hand, technology makes a cheaper product that is more affordable than the human cottage industry it replaces, and thus enables "more people to buy more". Given a choice of handmade expensive clothing or cheap machine produced stuff, most people go for the cheaper options to cut bills.
I think even before AI things were doomed for us because the biggest problem is someone will always be willing to work for free. That's it in a nutshell. So there's no incentive to improve rates or the conditions that we're working under. None at all.
I’m sorry you’re having to fight for what should be common decency and that notion we seem to forget - professionalism. I have no real practical words to offer other than the (perhaps naive) hope that there are still good people out there doing good business and that at some point the tides will turn!
Thanks mate for reading. It has been terrible lately. At least having this platform now helps. Xx