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Your Job is to Feed the Machine
About five years ago, there was a conversation between journalists who had done years of work under precarious conditions and the YouTubers who used that work to create monetized content that made them a ton of money. If someone spends ten years of their life covering a story, and then some 22-year-old reads a simplified version of that work to the camera while doing their make-up and makes 10x as much money for it, is this a fair distribution of resources?
Now the conversation is about YouTubers being pushed out and losing income because of AI. Science YouTuber (a word thoroughly lacking in…
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