AI is becoming an information gateway. Audiences still don’t want it making news

serious_angel

Irresponsible and dead LLM/SI/AI is not an information gateway, and will never be. Limited/censored/opinionated or not. People is the gateway, their effort, their experience, to learn from.

VCFundedGenYer

"Cigarettes are incredible. Audiences don't want them"

tehjoker

So glad the public hates this stuff in journalism. I hope all the news agencies that use it are left with the same kind of remnant audience that found Q-Anon so inspiring.

threethirtytwo

This is an hallucination. We all know humans hallucinate just like LLMs and this is another form of it. It’s like if I asked you if you enjoy talking shit about people or saying things and gossiping without people knowing about it. Most people would say no they don’t enjoy it. But most people would be lying. Not lying to you but lying to themselves. It’s one of the most obvious lies because everyone can definitely think back and recall themselves talking shit. People say they don’t want to use LLMs and they say they hate ai and they say they appreciate human art and effort and human endeavor and all of this is true and at the same time not true as the same people who say they don’t like it use it all the time. It’s both true and not true. Human brains like LLMs did not evolve to enforce strict logical conclusions because such a thing is not absolutely necessary for survival. You can hold contradictory opinions and beliefs in your mind.

pj_mukh

But what does "used Gen AI" in an article mean? Did they type "Write a news article make no mistakes?" and hit Publish or Did they use it to find secondary sources for a set of details to then manually go check them? Or use it for copy-editing or have a discussion with a frontier model about the best term to describe a concept (something I find them very good at!)? Or a myriad of such interventional uses. Are those considered the same by the audience? Was the difference explained in this survey? I'm betting the audience is a lot more accepting of the latter and the former is what everyone imagines "Use Gen-AI" means and words like "mostly human generated with some AI help" don't really capture the difference OR value. I hate to be the "there is nuance" guy, but...isn't there significant nuance here?

saulpw

AI is good for consuming public information, not for producing public information.

mkotlikov

What does AI for news even mean? In what world are people using it for search, but not for news? Search looks at and summarizes the news! If I ask why Nvidia dropped today, is that the news?

aplummer

The comments here are enlightening. All the anti-ai hype posts are downvoted. I think justifiably, this is a transformational moment. But what we can surely agree on is two fold, it is built on theft, and the regular non-hn people are increasingly likely to demand a reckoning for that theft.