After 31 years Salon is ceasing publication. The online journalism game is obviously nothing like it was when they started back in 1995. Yikes I'm old.

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[–] 40 points 4 days ago (4 children)

This is presumably a result of the demonetisation of sites thanks to Google stealing their news, and now Google stealing all the site traffic with it's shitty AI overviews? AI continues to ruin the internet and peoples livelihoods. And AI won't be producing this journalism.

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  • [–] [S] 16 points 4 days ago (3 children)

    At some point - hopefully soon - people will realize that LLMs simply can’t make anything new. They’re amazing at making derivative work, but that’s about it.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 days ago (2 children)

    amazing doing a lot of heavy lifting there...

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  • [–] [S] 3 points 4 days ago (1 child)

    I mean... when you consider that the bulk of the world's work products are produced by totally average people, not amazing ones, an LLM spits out completely average derivative work at an extremely high rate. Think slop speed, not slop quality (and for me, 90% of bio-slop and machine-slop are interchangeable)

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