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Adrian Tchaikovsky, Award-winning Science Fiction and Fantasy Writer

Behind The Tech with Kevin Scott

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The Future of Journalism

I think the problem we're going to see with this sort of in inverted commas AI style program is it is very good at certain tasks. And because of that, it's going to get used in all sorts of circumstances where it honestly doesn't belong. But obviously, you know, online journalism is a game of tens of thousands of articles with clickbait headlines. It's going to cost a fraction of the cost to just get your program to write them all and not really care whether they are accurate or not. The thing that I worry about is, because you'll be able to put these things in feedback loops, if the objective of clickbait journalism is to get people to

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