#AI #Journalism #News #Media: "As it turns out, research suggests that large language models, like the one that powers ChatGPT, quickly collapse when the data they are trained on is created by other AIs instead of original material from humans. Other research found that without fresh data, an autophagous loop is created, doomed to a progressive decline in the quality of content. One researcher said “we’re about to fill the internet with blah”. Media organisations using AI to generate a huge amount of content are accelerating the problem. But maybe this is cause for a dark optimism; rampant AI generated content could seed its own destruction.
AI in the media doesn’t have to be bad news. There are other AI applications that could benefit the public. For example, it can improve accessibility by helping with tasks such as transcribing audio content, generating image descriptions, or facilitating text-to-speech delivery. These are genuinely exciting applications."