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tante

A match made in hell.

(For my international followers: Axel Springer is Germany's Fox News.)

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wakame

@tante
Can't wait for the TruthGPT/Breitbart partnership...

Malte Engeler

@tante Just as with crypto or blockchain: Look at who is adopting and promoting it and you get a good picture of what ideas lie at the core of a technology 🤝

tante

@malteengeler yes. Springer and a lying machine fit together like a glove

Daniël Franke 🏳️‍🌈

@tante @malteengeler

Yep, and these kinda deals will just nudge the bias of the lies more towards a certain direction.

Pretty scary IMHO.

Radieschen

@malteengeler @tante Just becaue capitalism exploits something doesn't make it a bad technology.

Only a :verify_anime: fl👀f.

@tante@tldr.nettime.org Schreibt dann die KI die Artikel der Redakteure damit die KI was zum lernen hat.

Michael Salbeck

@tante
Irre.
Bei der Google Suchmaschine war Springer noch ganz anderer Meinung. Aber bei vermeindlicher KI scheint Springer es anders zu sehen.

Mika

@tante Fun fact: Axel Springer outlets are considered a major part of the opposition-to-PiS that now took power in Poland

Random Host 🐕

@tante Makes sense for two of the biggest companies that specialize in spreading pleasant lies to team up like that.

The age of misinformation is in full swing.

Oliver Schafeld

Now there can be one (1) "journalist", the CEO, with unlimited AI personas substituting for actual journalists (however many, if any, a tabloid like Bild ever had) at each of their media brands.

Then again, opinion editors already defeated investigative reporters by getting more clicks a while ago, didn't they. (Faint music, "video killed the radio star")

Oh, brave new media world.

reuters.com/business/media-tel

Now there can be one (1) "journalist", the CEO, with unlimited AI personas substituting for actual journalists (however many, if any, a tabloid like Bild ever had) at each of their media brands.

Then again, opinion editors already defeated investigative reporters by getting more clicks a while ago, didn't they. (Faint music, "video killed the radio star")

Thea_gruen

@tante WtF
So werden deren Hass, Hetze, Fakenews dann noch schneller und breiter verteilt.

Marsmädchen

@tante This is really scary.
This is the point in the movie when everything goes wrong.

Christof Donat

@tante

So Axel Springer is going to lay of it's - erm - writers (I don't call them Journalists), because AI can do their job cheaper. That's good news. Theese are the people, who wrote articles about "lazy" unemployed, etc. Well, let them taste their own poison now. It's also a statment about the quality of the Bild-contets up to now, if AI can take that over.

tante

@cdonat it's more the other route: OpenAI pulls in Axel Springer's feeds. Which is even worse cause it's basically pushing more right wing content into OpenAI's product

Christof Donat

@tante

Well, then that's the premature death of their language model before it was even really born. OpenAI should feed it with well written content insted.

GunChleoc

@cdonat @tante Actually, it's very well written. Unfortunately.

Christof Donat

@tante @gunchleoc

We seem to have different opinions on "well written". I think I get, what you mean: they fulfill their purpose pretty well. But that's not the only requirement I have, to call something "well written".

John Mizerek

@tante gotta make that sweet sweet revenue somewhere.

Niedliche Nacktschnecke

@tante heartwarming, the old school lying machine and the new school join in intergenerational harmony

DELETED

@tante ChatGPT using BILD as reference is... dystopian.

Aram Bartholl

@tante since musk went totally nuts, Döpfner pivots to the next tech poster boy but what is the plan?. Giving away Bildzeitung on LLM? It is only about this tweet and the attention. The springer employees are super excited I bet 🫠

DELETED

@tante But a great match.

Hope this Doepfdings guy delivers some stories. With a German fixpoint it should be easy to translate the billionaire olymp into the German public discourse.

Also great frame to propose a öffentlich-rechtlich like structure for LLM development.

Canna0228

@tante

Nice ... but i feel actually BINg is better. More data sources are not as important as recognizing connections

Mx Amber Alex

@tante so not only will ChatGPT be used in homework, essays, content mills and scientific papers – it will quote neonazis.

Yay.

SpaceLifeForm

@tante

If ChatGPT provided attribution and links, that would be good.

The problem is that it will be at the discretion of the bot. It may depend upon your location. YMMV.

Wolf480pl

@tante
by "Germany's Fox News" do you mean "supports AfD" or just "produces cheap clickbait without any concern for facts" ?

Bloc

@wolf480pl @tante the former not openly, just pushing their points. The latter is their business model for decades especially with point one.

razze

@tante Lol, damit ist das ding dann nutzlos

Reiner Jung

@tante oh so now they do not only produce bullshit and fake news, they also pump that into a fake news generator.

hnapel

@tante

This made me think #AI is like a really nice dinner with many delicious dishes, you really enjoyed it, but then your stomach turns, you vomit and offer it to someone else to enjoy.

Sandra Hoenle (she/her)

@tante Definitely not good news. Eigentlich ganz furchtbar.

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