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Uhhhh wtf

What are we doing here folks?

Aha futurism.com/washington-p...

Bezos issued an order to use AI. I don’t know if there was much more to it than that.

The Washington Post Tells Staff It’s Pivoting to AIfuturism.com The Washington Post's new-ish CEO has announced that the newspaper will be pivoting to artificial intelligence to turn sales around.

I think I saw that it came from Bezos in @brianstelter.bsky.social’s recent piece in the American Journal of Race Science and Cancellation Studies (formerly the Atlantic).

Yeah I saw the article but can't read it so posted this one instead. Thanks for the tip!

#whyIquitsubscribingtoWaPo

“You’ve got to shut yourself down for the good of the climate, Climate Answers” “I’m sorry Dave, I’m afraid I can’t do that”

The Torment Nexus is Wrecking our Country How and Why We Made the Torment Nexus Bigger

We know what needs to be done

can we send it chatgpt instructions

i'm not sure i can see a winning move here

This is just. so. maddening.

Actively making me inordinately angry, for starters

this is reminding me that i need to cancel my wapo subscription like i did w/ nytimes after i realized they were shady

We’re not asking chat gpt to do a damn thing just to see what happens.

Brilliant and super useful

it’s like fighting fire with much bigger fires

"We're having trouble with the heat" "Let's increase the soot and smoke and see if you feel mroe comfortable!"

Climate reporting at your fingertips thanks to rolling coal!

Goddammit so much. This continues to be the absolute stupidest end of the world imaginable.

it’s a goddamn Douglas Adams apocalypse and i’m fucking tired of it

I just went and told them how much they suck: thewashingtonpost.formstack.com/forms/climat...

Climate tool survey - Formstackthewashingtonpost.formstack.com

Somebody at WaPo goofed up on designing that form

holy shit

11/10 no notes

"And as a special bonus feature, every interaction with the app actually worsens the crisis!"

these people need to get whapped with a huge dead fish until they're begging for mercy

Bezos issued an order to use AI. I don’t know if there was much more to it than that.

"Based on your reporting, is this function going to cause more in emissions than it's going to prevent?"

It's like some Dr. Seuss cartoon, a "Climate Answers" machine that every time you dare to ask it a question, it belches smoke and sewage out some distant back end.

doing nothing would have been better

Yeah I can't imagine readers were clamoring for such a feature

To provide answers to your questions about clean air, we have hired this lump of bituminous coal.

So, a search engine that burns an acre of rain forest each time you hit "enter"

Why does this heat wave have seven fingers and three giant boobs

I really hope this is malicious compliance from the staff.

This is the least stupid possible explanation.

Wow this fucking sucks. The only upshot is that Gen Ai is so unprofitable that the bubble has to pop soon. I really hope it pops soon..

Hire real people challenge?

This is some "putting out a fire with a flamethrower" logic here.

We’re boiling oceans for lies, that’s what

"We are going to ruin the environment further every time you ask a climate related question"

I mean, we gotta choose: either we can get answers to our climate questions, or we can stop burning fossil fuels and save the climate. What to do?

It dawns on me that maybe WaPo is trolling Bezos with their first AI thing being a climate change oracle. I know I would (having worked at one of his endeavors previously).

That's a big ol' whoopsie daisy!

are you worried about the orphan crushing machine? ease your mind! now please deposit two (2) orphans into the machine for reassurance that we are making progress in our effort to turn it off

Oh my God

it's because they no longer have any humans on the payroll capable of journalism

Now draining your local lake so you can ask it what the consequences of draining your local lake would be.

This is so fucked