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Ben Werdmuller: The Web Floods (Nieman Labs)
Werdmuller predicts that news will have an AI reckoning as declining employment and the necessity of SEO make for an increasingly toxic combination.
Sports Illustrated publisher fires CEO Ross Levinsohn after AI scandal
Speaking of such: Sports Illustrated's publisher has fired its CEO after the scandal that had the sports icon's site include AI-generated articles by AI-generated reporters. There was an outcry over the audacity, but if you look at who owns it, you shouldn't be surprised: Authentic Brands Group is the sort of industry-agnostic value vampire that would do exactly this sort of thing, and did. If CNET can be ruined by this sort of dreck, why not Sports Illustrated, they probably reckoned. Absolutely. Why not. What's the value of creation, anyway? Why love anything? Pull the content lever and fill 'er up with sludge.
How Twitter Broke the News (The Verge)
I also enjoyed this article from Nilay Patel on the way Twitter affected journalism over the past fifteen-ish years, as well as the outsized influence it seemed to have on people in positions of power.
The Year Twitter Died (The Verge)
That Verge article is part of a larger series on Twitter's slow death, which is interesting and worth a browse.