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Fake freelance journalism with AI — until you’re busted (pivot-to-ai.com)
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[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Imagine using AI to write a description of what you're looking at. It has to know what you're looking at, so you type up a description of what you're seeing all so an AI can describe what you're seeing.

I took a college course on journalism and 90℅ of it is just observing something, and then writing a description of it. If you can't even do that, what the fucking hell do you even want to be a journalist for?