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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.”

Damon Kiesow

@kiesow.net

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.

22/9/26, 2:14 pm3 reposts7 likes

Sir John Falstaff (Ret.) from Shakespeare

@bbo-falstaff.bsky.social

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