is this a riff off of the "wish brands would sell me their products instead of their vision", or is the similarity a coincidence
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I prefer facts without narratives. I prefer products with whys. Well, excluding toilet paper and basic necessities.
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Soon journalism will collapse to just be Uber-style stringers reporting all news in bullet point fact format and openai’s GPT2 will turn it into whatever prose you want. Like by this summer. I’m not joking or exaggerating. Short all media companies.
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You don’t even need reporters for video. You can use cheap CGI, use google voice with ums and pauses, and deepfake whatever reporter’s face you want over it. You just need enough GPU cycles. It’s game over, man. Game over.
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Came here to say this
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from “Encoding, Decoding” by Stuart Hall (1973): events simply cannot be communicating without being encoded in language, which is *always* an act of storytelling.pic.twitter.com/LSWXOF2bMd
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What?! Are you for real saying this??
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Reminds me of this http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/hatethenews …, even if it might be a stronger opinion: "None of these stories have relevance to my life. Reading them may be enjoyable, but it’s an enjoyable waste of time. They will have no impact on my actions one way or another."
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