Ai ai ai

So. Fucking. Much.

Seems super common in reporting as well, I am noting it with basically every NPR news story these days. LLM's love outputting this format as well. Almost the same thing that is happening with most media, people are so unfocused that you have to repeat things 20 different ways for them to remember, and the lack of actual journalism means they need to fill time with the 'big stories'.

AI produces cookie-cutter bullshit.

That said, at least for the time being, it gets down to brass tacks in the first paragraph or so. I guess they haven't felt the need to keep your eyes on the page longer.

Capitalist enshitifed journalism is the reason they're 'starving' for readers. You can't find a meat-created news article or a fucking recipe without sifting through 10 pages of hyperbole and nostalgia.

Bring back the fucking newspaper article format where every word cost somebody money. Spend the money on paying someone to make sure the news is right and condense it into an article where your primary goal is conveying exactly what's going on with a close fucking second goal of not wasting everyone's time.

So much is paywalled now that I haven't read enough articles to even notice that format.

It’s not AI. Axios used this format for years, going back to Trump’s first term.

The original pitch was real, sourced journalism in a more concise format, to compete with Twitter and such.

I like that (hence I’ve read Axios for years), but I do get annoyed by the lack of detail, sometimes.

What's fake about it? Idk i like structured writing.

I put these AI articles to another AI to get the bottom line/1 sentence summary.