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Sharing this because "fail-upward brunchlords" is an all-time great turn of phrase.
"AI" could be used to improve journalism. Instead, the fail-upward brunchlords in charge of most major modern media companies see it as a way to cut corners, undermine labor, and badly automate low quality SEO-chasing clickbait and PR at unprecedented scale
A national network of local news sites is publishing AI-written articles under fake bylines. Experts are raising alarm | CNN Businesswww.cnn.com Last year, Hoodline began filling its site with AI-generated articles, and Zachary Chen, chief executive of Hoodline parent company Impress3, defended the practice.