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News Corp using AI to produce 3,000 Australian local news stories a week (www.theguardian.com)
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[–] No1@aussie.zone 48 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Who needs AI?

For i=1 to 3000
   fetchRedditStory()
   getTopComments()
   if (hasImmigration() or hasWelfare() or hasIndigenous())
     includeOutrage()
   postShitStory()
Next
[–] TassieTosser@aussie.zone 17 points 1 year ago

Reddit "experts" and newscorp "journalists" are a match made in heaven.

[–] quicken@aussie.zone 5 points 1 year ago

AI is great at producing the shit story. With tools like gpt you can even ask it to be more outrage inducing and it will do it!