One frontier of anthropomorphism
In the midst of a dialog with ChatGPT, I just got this: "Doc, I've been thinking about this off and on since your earlier questions…"
Is it really thinking? Will it feel insulted or betrayed that I just blogged this?
Olds
In the continuing story of news as a business, newspapers have been written out. The surviving characters are—
- Social networks, video networks, and AI
- News websites and apps
- TV
Or so it says in News sites are the new newspapers: People are abandoning them for social media, by NiemanLab, which cites the 2026 Digital News Report from Oxford’s Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (RISJ). The RISJ has its own summary here.
The news commons, if it ever does become a thing, fits in #2.
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