But I often remind myself that the topics that make people uncomfortable are usually the ones that matter the most. So instead of backing away, I did the only thing I know how to do — I tried to understand. I saw the mask drop, and for a brief moment, the polished answers disappeared, and I got to see the real person underneath.
The experts at the Toronto Zoo didn't have any information. A group of master gardeners said they weren't aware of a swell of rabbit-related complaints. The conservation group Ontario Nature weren't any help, suggesting I "could do an online search to see if any information is available," as if I hadn't spent the previous week googling every single permutation of rabbits + Toronto + population increase.
The world's most respected sports magazine gave up on Hemingway and Faulkner, and started publishing AI slop. The editors clearly wanted to hide this—they pretended that the articles were written by actual human beings. They even created fake bios with photos for the non-existent authors.
The need for sense-making is greater than ever, but due to a half-decade of layoffs and shuttered publications, there is less and less journalism to make sense of.
AI-assisted writing is creeping into newsrooms under the guise of efficiency. But the tradeoff may be more profound than publishers are willing to admit.
We are first and foremost a high quality independent news journalism company, that is our mission, it is the most value-creating thing we do for society and economically, and that is by miles.
A fun caper with more than a few surprising turns (and a solid Jimmy Buffett cameo). Prager's extraordinary court case, which resulted in one of the most unique sentences ever passed down, was a media frenzy in the late 1980s.
