Here are the publishers firing journalists to replace them with ChatGpt
ChatGpt and its partners are making the shoes of journalists in various newsrooms. Here are the ones that kick humans out to "hire" the algorithms (and the remaining flesh-and-blood colleagues get paid a pittance)
Why maintain an editorial staff which also needs to pay pension contributions, ensure holidays and sickness, when you can pay a subscription to ChatGpt that knows everything, makes no mistakes, is tireless and, above all, does not boast union claims? The thought, which in China seems to have already become dominant in some sectors, has begun to infect the minds of some Western publishers.
LAYOUTS ON THE GO, AI TAKES OVER
CNET , vertical site with publications in the USA, Germany, France, Korea and Japan on the technology that most still know by the old name c|net, which became a trademark of CBS Interactive in 2008 and was subsequently acquired by Red Ventures three years ago, according to reports from various competing online newspapers including The Verge which reported testimonies and internal documents in this regard, he would have fired 10% of the total workforce. Several senior employees, who have been with CNET for years, are also affected by the measure. Editorial manager Connie Guglielmo has moved into a new role – AI content manager and in her place has arrived Adam Auriemma, former editorial manager of NextAdvisor , another Red Ventures publication, which has been taken offline.
AAA NURSE FOR THE AI WANTED
Insider Tom Henderson, priced when it comes to under-the-counter information, revealed via Twitter that Gamurs , publisher of several news sites including Destructoid , Gaempur and Twinfinite , not only recently fired 40% of its editors but intends to replace them with a smaller number of AI Editors, i.e. editors expert in the use of generative artificial intelligence.
GAMURS, the company who let go 40%ish of their staff recently is now hiring an “AI Editor” to do approximately 250 articles per week at a whopping $4.20 per article.
The future of written gaming content is here! Lmao pic.twitter.com/MaAUznBrIs
— Tom Henderson (@_Tom_Henderson_) June 13, 2023
Henderson points out that, according to the announcement published by the publisher, candidates will have to use generative artificial intelligence along the lines of the one that animates ChatGpt to create articles. Then they will have to: “rewrite the content if necessary”, “write titles, add links, add images and do other things in WordPress”, “make sure that the content has not already been published on Gamurs sites” and make sure that the content is SEO oriented.
In short, the selected ones will have to act as nurse to the AI and correct the articles it will produce, put them in order if not rewrite the pieces from scratch where necessary. For a total of 250 articles a week for 4.20 dollars per article, for an average of 35 articles a day, which becomes even 50 considering the weekends or in any case a shift with two days off every five. In short, at similar prices, newly fired editors are more fortunate.
THE CHINESE EXPERIENCE
As anticipated, in the world of video games, at least in China, similar cleanups have already begun and have been so traumatic as to lead several software houses that had excessively intertwined their video games with AI along the lines of ChatGpt to put it in reverse and apologize in some cases to the 'user. But the damage is done in some sectors: according to the Rest of World report in China, the search for professional illustrators for video games has decreased by 70% due to artificial intelligence.
IBM'S DARK WARNING
In short, the words recently expressed by the CEO of IBM , Arvind Krishna , sound like a rather gloomy warning, according to which thanks to ChatGpt & co. it will be possible to cut thousands of jobs, freezing the recruitment of 7,800 job positions which will be replaced precisely by algorithms.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/innovazione/ecco-gli-editori-che-licenziano-giornalisti-per-rimpiazzarli-con-chatgpt/ on Sun, 18 Jun 2023 05:09:23 +0000.