Hilary Frey: I think news gathering is the thing that's going to be really hard for AI to do. You can't think about like, huh, like, could I sort of script some kind of email that emails 50 of my sources and says, hey, do you know anything about this? She asks whether he misses Twitter as a part of the media businessgoing forward. "I mean, I'm pretty sad about it, honestly," responds BuzzFeed News editor-in-chief John Sutter.
A song featuring A.I.-generated versions of Drake and the Weeknd went viral — before being taken down by streaming services. Is censorship of A.I.-generated songs the way forward? Or can singers benefit from synthetic voices, as some artists like Grimes are suggesting?
Then, HatGPT: Kevin and Casey pull headlines out of a hat and generate their own takes on the news.
And Ben Smith, the former BuzzFeed News editor, discusses the end of the 2010s digital media era.
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Ben Smith is a journalist and co-founder of the digital media company Semafor. He was a New York Times media columnist and the first editor in chief of BuzzFeed News.