AI is amusing us to death

A scene in James L. Brooks's 1987 film Broadcast News features an idealistic news producer (Holly Hunter) giving a speech to fellow journalists. She warns of a growing corporate mandate for news to be more profitable, more efficient, and more entertaining. Replace journalism and news with advertising and AI, and this 38 year-old monologue sounds ripped from today's headlines.

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