At a news conference in Taiwan, News Corp Australia's boss told the crowd that a team of four staff (called Data Local) pump out 3,000 articles a week using generative artificial intelligence to "cover daily topics such as local weather, fuel prices, and traffic conditions", primarily in its "hyperlocal" mastheads, "typically in regions with a population of 15,000 or more people". Apparently they've used "automation" for years to generate this kinda content, but have boosted it with LLMs (I assume, they just called it AI and don't say what platform they employ) lately to make it better. Probably a good use for AI as getting a person to write this stuff is expensive, boring and tedious, but its kinda shit that News Corp doesn't say that stuff is generated by a bot, instead labelling the author as "Peter Judd" - News Corp's data journalism editor.
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