@reformed_content_marketer@mastodon.social
2026-10-02 05:23 UTC
@farseen@fedi.nptr.xyz @celesteh@hachyderm.io @knowprose@mastodon.social @mcc@mastodon.social
LLMs are also cutting into journalism, as it it weren't already too underfunded. That affects our ability to hold power accountable and have a functioning democracy.
Even before LLMs, the internet had already kind of screwed up the funding model for journalism. The past few decades have seen tons of job cuts, newspaper closures, and the remaining journalists doing more work for less pay, often with bosses forcing clickbait for financial reasons.
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@reformed_content_marketer@mastodon.social 2026-10-02 05:24
@farseen@fedi.nptr.xyz @celesteh@hachyderm.io @knowprose@mastodon.social @mcc@mastodon.social When people get news from an AI overview or a chatbot, the news sources AI draws from get fewer clicks and less ad revenue. So now we're entering a world with even fewer people doing important investigative work well. We can expect more corruption and even less shared understanding of reality. 🧵 (5/?)