#the End Times

[mckitterick]

The End Is Near: "News" organizations using AI to create content, firing human writers

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an example "story" now comes with this warning:

A new byline showed up Wednesday on io9: “Gizmodo Bot.” The site’s editorial staff had no input or advance notice of the new AI-generator, snuck in by parent company G/O Media.

G/O Media’s AI-generated articles are riddled with errors and outdated information, and block reader comments.

“As you may have seen today, an AI-generated article appeared on io9,” James Whitbrook, deputy editor at io9 and Gizmodo, tweeted. “I was informed approximately 10 minutes beforehand, and no one at io9 played a part in its editing or publication.”

Whitbrook sent a statement to G/O Media along with “a lengthy list of corrections.” In part, his statement said, “The article published on io9 today rejects the very standards this team holds itself to on a daily basis as critics and as reporters. It is shoddily written, it is riddled with basic errors; in closing the comments section off, it denies our readers, the lifeblood of this network, the chance to publicly hold us accountable, and to call this work exactly what it is: embarrassing, unpublishable, disrespectful of both the audience and the people who work here, and a blow to our authority and integrity.”

He continued, “It is shameful that this work has been put to our audience and to our peers in the industry as a window to G/O’s future, and it is shameful that we as a team have had to spend an egregious amount of time away from our actual work to make it clear to you the unacceptable errors made in publishing this piece.”

According to the Gizmodo Media Group Union, affiliated with WGA East, the AI effort has “been pushed by” G/O Media CEO Jim Spanfeller, recently hired editorial director Merrill Brown, and deputy editorial director Lea Goldman.

In 2019, Spanfeller and private-equity firm Great Hill Partners acquired Gizmodo Media Group (previously Gawker Media) and The Onion.

The Writers Guild of America issued a blistering condemnation of G/O Media’s use of artificial intelligence to generate content.

“These AI-generated posts are only the beginning. Such articles represent an existential threat to journalism. Our members are professionally harmed by G/O Media’s supposed ‘test’ of AI-generated articles.”

WGA added, “But this fight is not only about members in online media. This is the same fight happening in broadcast newsrooms throughout our union. This is the same fight our film, television, and streaming colleagues are waging against the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) in their strike.”

The union, in its statement, said it “demands an immediate end of AI-generated articles on G/O Media sites,” which include The A.V. Club, Deadspin, Gizmodo, Jalopnik, Jezebel, Kotaku, The Onion, Quartz, The Root, and The Takeout.

but wait, there's more:

Just weeks after news broke that tech site CNET was secretly using artificial intelligence to produce articles, the company is doing extensive layoffs that include several longtime employees, according to multiple people with knowledge of the situation. The layoffs total 10 percent of the public masthead.

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Greedy corporate sleazeballs using artificial intelligence are replacing humans with cost-free machines to barf out garbage content.

This is what end-stage capitalism looks like: An ouroborus of machines feeding machines in a downward spiral, with no room for humans between the teeth of their hungry gears.

Anyone who cares about human life, let alone wants to be a writer, should be getting out the EMP tools and burning down capitalist infrastructure right now before it's too late.

#artificial intelligence #journalism #writing #disasters #the end times #late stage capitalism

[tajcox]

#seventhdayadventist #jesus christ #bible verse #christianity #christians #god #religion #scripture #biblical #god's love #love #keep the faith #faith in the lord #faith in jesus #faith in god #faith #10commandments #revelation #the end #the end times #everyone

[spaceshiphorror]

🫵 HEY WARHAMMER FAN! 🫵

The Old World is coming out, but you don't have to pay premium prices for it! Companies have literally built their business around just copying them for years! Buy the occasional character or unit to support GW, but let the rich ppl have their GW-sanctioned army!

I personally recommend Avatars of War, Kings of War, Proxywars, Wargames Atlantic, Wargames Foundry, The Assault Group, Oathmark, Reaper Miniatures, and, of course, 3D printing!

Always remember to shop and play at your local game store! They'll appreciate you buying third party minis that have been sitting in stock unsold for ages!

NOW GO, ARMCHAIR GENERAL! BUY THEM MINIS! 🏃🏃🧑‍🦽🧑‍🦽

#warhammer #warhammercommunity #warhammer age of sigmar #warhammer fantasy #age of sigmar #warhammer fantasy battle #warhammer the old world #the old world #warhammer the end times #the end times #EEFL

[siamesephoenixrandomideatank]

Warhammer: The End Times AU- United we (may) stand

I just have a crazy Warhammer Story Idea. Kinda inspired by the Lego Movie and The End Time. Instead of Archaon, it's three 'outer beings'; Mar'Mufyr (Mr. Muffin, the house's favorite furball), Perpentious Tyrant of Tea Party (The Tabletop owner's niece), and the last one maybe being sold to Amazon, or just got merged randomly like Zid from Toy Story by a respectless nephew.

The group of chosen ones from different races has been tasked to find the lost relic of Ruby Luminark to the Old Ones(Laser Pointer). They might even find a Space Marine Captain(from the abandoned former ruined project) or even G.IJoe, He-Man, or Optimus Prime.

#warhammer fantasy #warhammer #warhammer 40k #the end times #warhammer au #the end times au

[cam2d]

Varanguard! Pains in the ass to paint, but I think they’ll serve me well on the table.

#varanguard #chaos #slaves to darkness #daves to darkness #chaos knights #warhammer #warhammer fantasy battle #age of sigmar #middlehammer #the end times #archaon #everchosen #knights of the empty throne #citadel #miniatures #wargaming #games-workshop #warhammer age of sigmar #warhammer aos #sigmar

[notaravensittingonasign]

Rant time

The skaven could've won in the end times. We know that they had the opportunity to contest archaon's landing, and that they had at least 500k rats (a thousand thousand eyes) to do so. While this would not have stopped archaon it would've undoubtedly severely damaged his army. After that the skaven could've applied clan pestilens to ravage his footsoldiers and clan eshin to wreak havoc on his upper command and whatever quality fighters remained (Many heroes of norsca had already fallen by this point). In the meanwhile they could've pitched battles every once in a while as he (presumably) marches on skavenblight to end the skaven. With all this, archaon's army would've surely almost dissolved by the time it was anywhere close to skavenblight in tilea. While archaon himself could likely push forward and battle an effectively infinite horde of ratmen, his soldiers could not and eventually it would be just him left. At that point mass application of clan skryre artillery teams and clan moulder hell-pit abominations would kill or maim/exhaust him enough for the grey seers to pulverise him (as what happenned with morrslieb except archaon isn't a moon). We know that the only thing that can stop the skaven warmachine at full power is nagash with all his strength and chokepoints. The ratmen literally need their own dead turned against them for any enemy to hold them at a STALEMATE, let alone actually WIN.

In conclusion, the rats could've (and should've) beaten archaon.

#skaven #warhammer fantasy #archaon #the end times

[big-low-t]

My God, this is surely a sign that the end times are near...

#snoop dogg #weed #the end times

[airasora]

Taylor Swift is truly the most relevant musician of our time lolol 😂😂😂

#atheism #christianity #prophecies #the end times #taylor swift #shake it off

[troythecatfish]

Here’s my personal recommendation of a YouTube video to check out:

#the end of the world #the apocalypse #the end of the fucking world #the end of the f***ing world #the end times #doomsday preppers #doomsday #video essay #political #political posting #politics #leftist #leftism #left wing #leftisim #left wing politics #leftist politics #socialist #socialism #communist #communism #marxism #political stuff #tumblr recommendations #recommend #recommendation #youtube #youtube content #youtube recommendations #youtube video

[zippocreed501]

What's that? This isn't very Halloween-ish? It's not scary enough? You have to understand that when The End Times come around, this will be the opening act...

#halloween #the end times #fernsehballett #mr sandman #camp #funny #dance #Youtube

[titleknown]

Found out about this fascinating article thanks to @thebigdeepcheatsy, and I felt I had to share it with you.

Like, while the movements it’s connected to are... bad, the sheer mad-scientist-y chutzpah of trying to breed a cow to bring about the apocalypse does appeal to some dark part of my heart...

#mad science #cow #cows #zionism #apocalypse #the end times

[literallyjumble]

It is her life-long dream

#oc artist #ocs #silly guy #little creature #glorpii #the end times #god save us all #help I'm stuck in a hashtag

[askmalal]

I promise you, dear one, that I shall not linger overmuch on polls. However, the following subject has come up with a group of mortal friends…

To whit: is 9th edition of Warhammer 40k building toward an End Times like scenario ala Warhammer Fantasy and Age of Sigmar?

There are quite vociferous arguments as regards this subject, lately.

#malice #malal #askmalal #warhammer40k #the end times #malal polls

[slaanxsh]

N'kari -- The End Times

This man STAYS getting killed by T&T huh?

Anyway, we've got some neat new titles for N'kari: Herald of Dismay and Lord of a Thousand Songs. Ties in nicely with what he says during his Quest Battle, where the deaths of the elves will be "Sung in the Halls of the Marcher Fortress For Eternity".

#Tyrion and Teclis: HOW MANY TIMES DO WE HAVE TO TEACH YOU THIS LESSON OLD MAN #n'kari #the end times #warhammer fantasy #some pretty baller titles im ngl #tome of excess (official content);

[kohlscash-ouroboros]

Male privilege is being able to look absent minded on a Zoom meeting without people thinking you're stupid

#and also having a low angle camera #misogyny #feminism #male privilege #zoom meeting #the end times #i just want to half-listen #bored #this could have been an email #work

[heliinx]

#q #thanquol #skaven #warhammer fantasy #The End Times #Skreech Verminkin #verminlord