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In this case it was very much NOT "damned if you do, damned if you don't"--It's just don't.
As a journalist it's your whole fucking job to do the research and report things accurately and truthfully. There's no reason at all the "journalist" in question here should have had an AI generated anything for his shitty article.
The fact that this was a story on AI misuse in the first place only adds insult to injury.
And yet, if you don't, you will be undercut by the grossly subsidized AI and out of a job, either individually if your management leans AI or the whole enterprise if they don't, replaced by the AI slop factories.
Yeah. But there's always the risk of being undercut by someone or something cheaper if you're operating in a workplace with zero standards. After all, you could write a lot of articles if you didn't give a rat's ass about the veracity or quality of the information within.
Good newsrooms are supposed to have standards--that's what makes them good.
If this the people at Ars had done their jobs to a high standard, the article in question wouldn't have been written like that in the first place, let alone edited and published as is. They want to fire the writer in question, and the writer wants to blame being sick, but the fact remains that the publishing of that article reveals a systemic problem with how Ars are operating, and a total lack of editorial standards.
The elite don't need the masses to be informed, they need them to be placated and oblivious or confused about what is happening, so they support what is contrary to their interests - idolize and support the elite. Good newsrooms don't serve the purposes of those that own them. AI producing slop with embedded propaganda serves them. It has only just begun. Watch young people on TikTok, sopping up the numbing propaganda. It is the future - now controlled by US elites. Like programmers who know their code, accountants that know their books, and so many other professionals who pride themselves on the quality of their work, journalists who do their jobs to a high standard are being replaced. It will be very good for a few - those that can afford quality, free from slop and misinformation. But that's not the audience of Ars.