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Entire news station production staff replaced by AI system

by notRobot on 11/19/24, 5:00 AM with 11 comments

• by PittleyDunkin on 11/19/24, 5:34 AM

  I tend to think than tech replacing jobs is good for everyone in the long term, but I still worry very deeply about the short term. I believe that welfare systems help us weather otherwise unstable economic climates, and decades of slashing this have left us vulnerable to highly unstable financial forces.

• by k310 on 11/19/24, 6:39 PM

  Someone suggested the real Reddit link below.

  > I clicked on it and the site seems to mirror reddit, but if you forward the link it changes it to redtit. yes, red tit. and if the person clicks on it the flashing VIRUS ON YOUR PHONE CRAP POPS UP.

  Not sure how this happened. Better safe than sorry.

  https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/1guhsm4/well_this_...

• by aurareturn on 11/19/24, 5:05 AM

  I have an unpopular theory.

  I think AI will bring more jobs.

  Take this Reddit post for example. If 20 people can be replaced by 1 AI system and 1 manager, then it must mean one can create new TV stations a lot cheaper. So cheap in fact, that many entrepreneurs can look at the math and determine that there is room to create 50 new TV stations. Each TV station can hire 1 person to overlook the AI system.

  Thus, 20 jobs lost and 50 new jobs created.

  The problem is that in the intermediate time frame, there will be more pain as people get laid off due to AI automation, but haven't figured out how to use AI yet.

• by sans_souse on 11/19/24, 5:56 AM

  So, is there a market now for human-authored news sites? Are are people really so oblivious?