"Meet Matt Brittin: ex-Googler and, if reports are to be believed, the BBC’s next director general. An executive search yielded an apparent shortlist of four women – who between them had decades of experience in broadcasting, news, and public service journalism – and one man, who didn’t"

#BBC #Google #Journalism #Entertainment #UKPolitics #AI

Will Google’s AI hype man kill the BBC?
https://www.thenerve.news/p/matt-brittin-google-bbc-director-general-ai-death-journalism-guardian-anna-bateson

"Meet Matt Brittin: ex-Googler and, if reports are to be believed, the BBC’s next director general. An executive search yielded an apparent shortlist of four women – who between them had decades of experience in broadcasting, news, and public service journalism – and one man, who didn’t"

#BBC #Google #Journalism #Entertainment #UKPolitics #AI

Will Google’s AI hype man kill the BBC?
https://www.thenerve.news/p/matt-brittin-google-bbc-director-general-ai-death-journalism-guardian-anna-bateson

@thomasfuchs

Agree. I wrote a critique of "Claude" for a friend and turned it into an essay...

First rule... There is no "I" there. #AI #LLM #AIslop

https://richard.mdpaths.com/commentary/artificial_intelligence/index.html

@neurovagrant@masto.deoan.org @campuscodi@mastodon.social ​Do you think it is due to a general downturn in #AI demand?

Sora quickly hit the top spot on Apple’s US App Store, but it has since dropped to 172 among free apps, [according](https://app.sensortower.com/overview/6744034028?country=US&tab=category_rankings "(Opens in a new tab)") to SensorTower.

(pcmag.com/news/that-was-fast...)

While #Microsoft is scaling back #Copilot because of perceived bloat and low adoption.