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The WaPo told its staff that it's pivoting to AI. "AI everywhere in our newsroom" to turn around its dismal financial situation. (futurism.com)

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Already facing scandal, the Washington Post's new-ish CEO and publisher, Will Lewis, has announced that the newspaper will be pivoting to artificial intelligence to turn around its dismal financial situation.

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[-] Owl@hexbear.net 41 points 5 months ago

C-suite types mostly interact with upper management, who tell them nothing but puffed up bullshit, which they spun from middle management, who tell them nothing but puffed up bullshit, etc.

So sometimes I wonder if the reason they believe in AI so much is that it really is as competent as the people around them.

[-] buckykat@hexbear.net 21 points 5 months ago

I have a similar suspicion about those terrible ai image facebook jesus posts, like the people posting them actually don't notice the extra arms and legs

[-] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 12 points 5 months ago

My all-time favorite is anything religious. Jesus freaks lecture the world that the bible is the "word of God" and they also proclaim stuff like "They follow every word of it."

Oh, yeah? The SUV-sized Holy Bibble has cops, soldiers, guns, and the like because that's the holy text of Facebook 3:16?

[-] Findom_DeLuise@hexbear.net 9 points 5 months ago

B-but my Senior Vice President of Cargo Culting said that line would go up!

[-] SacredExcrement@hexbear.net 7 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I have a core memory of years ago, maybe a few months after I first started working my current white collar job.

In passing, I had our controller (accounting VP basically) ask me how it was going, and I made some off the cuff remark about how something was having issues (but it was minor).

He immediately grew concerned, pressed me on it a bit, and I was honest about it (but again, from what I recall it was pretty minor in the scheme of even day to day things). I had my immediate boss exasperatedly ask me later that day why I told this guy what I had