Comment by sallveburrpi 3 hours ago
You could easily replace them with an LLM if that were the case.
Although I don’t completely disagree with your cynical take I don’t think that’s actually the case for most of the Guardians journalists, they do a lot of quality reporting too
The journalist should have used the LLM to explain how this wasn’t a hack but a common mistake made by untrained workers.
Back when LLM chatbots were new and shiny, I was comparing the failure modes to journalism by way of the Gell-Mann amnesia effect.
Sure, deep investigative jounalism with real skill and effort behind it is a thing; but it is an expensive thing, and opinion pieces disguised as jounalism are much cheaper, as is reporting on other people's reports.
At the end of the day, we the audience reward the behavior unfortunately
Um - and not just journalists.
Most “bullshit jobs” are already being replaced. The era of bullshit jobs is coming to an end: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullshit_Jobs
I wish it was true. From the bullshit jobs in the book, I can only see the box tickers being replaced. The flunkies, goons, task masters, and duct tapers will probably continue to exist.
Als unless we come up with something like UBI or a dramatic rethinking of how capitalism works in our society there will probably be __more__ bullshit jobs.
> You could easily replace them with an LLM if that were the case.
We're already seeing this happen.