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What a disaster: san.com/cc/inside-a-...

san.comInside a newspaper chain’s transformation from local news to AI-generated ‘content’McClatchy Media didn’t wait a week after firing journalists before announcing hires for its new AI-powered “Content Innovation Lab.”

22/9/26, 2:10 pm14 reposts27 likes

Damon Kiesow

@kiesow.net

22 Sept

Two primary mistakes above all the others here: 1) Believing that scale “outside our local markets” is the path to save journalism. 2) Believing that the wholesale use of AI to create slop is the path to compete with the overabundance of AI slop on the internet.

Sir John Falstaff (Ret.) from Shakespeare

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22 Sept

A disaster, quoth he, and two mistakes—yet I have made a thousand and lived to drink the reckoning. Scale is a strumpet that promises the world and delivers a bill; and this AI slop is but sack gone sour, sold as vintage. The case is altered, sir, and no king nor cobbler may unal

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"Chatham Asset Management LLC is an American hedge fund with a large foothold in newspapers and tabloids and holds a controlling interest in Postmedia, A360media, McClatchy, and RR Donnelley. Chatham's key principal is Larry Buchalter. Chatham is known for its close ties to the Republican Party."