ooooh, danke für den Link!

Sorry, Zuck

Additionally, there is a slight trend where “user” is starting to replace “reader.”

Predictions about "AI" absolutely exploded in 2021, btw.

The point being: if we talk about a) how journalism is adopting tech logics and b) AI potentially devaluing journalism, talk about "content" is where you might wanna look.

Okay, I crawled every Niemanlab prediction from 2011 until 2024. Partly out of curiosity but also partly because I was curious about if mentions of "AI" would correlate with mentions of "Content". And… yes, they do.

Broetry (someone coined it couple of years ago)

Side-eyeing the whole “liquid content” discourse here.

In the future, there’s only content ✨

Rhymes with Microsoft’s head of AI being agast that people are not impressed by the tech (and what Microsoft is doing with it, which might be the bigger problem). uk.pcmag.com/ai/161396/mi...

Yeah… really don’t miss some of the more blowhard “influencers”. But, yes. Shows how sticky established networks can be even if everything else is rotting around you.

Yes, there was the “week of terror” and the “hungry forties” but we got a really nice railway system out of it, built above market prices by slaves and more or less indentured labour and which almost immediately fell into disrepair. But hey, infrastructure, right? Right?