But we still had the fourth estate, the last democratic pillar, keeping us all afloat. And it will save mankind eventually, right? (Forgive the hubris here; it’s a required personality trait to get a job as a member of said fourth power — newsrooms are not entirely filled with god-complexed characters, we promise.)
Well, not for long.
Enter: Italy’s daily newspaper and media outlet playing with moral fire at the worst possible moment in history, Il Foglio.
The broadsheet announced Tuesday that it would run a little experiment for the next four weeks: It will be the first publication in the world to issue a newspaper edition entirely written by AI.
Because if there’s ever a good time to explore dangerous, innovative tools whose impacts on society and humanity as we know it we still don’t really understand, that’s definitely now.
As their editorial letter puts it, technology will be used “for the copy, the headlines, the excerpts, the quotes, the summaries. And sometimes even for the irony.” And that’s where Declassified draws the line.
