Herald deploys AI for editorial, admits lack of rigour
The New Zealand Herald’s publisher NZME says it should have employed more “journalistic rigour” when it used artificial intelligence tools to create an editorial that appeared in the Weekend Herald, online and in regional papers recently.
The editorial about who the All Blacks should pick to play at centre ran first in the Weekend Herald on 20 July.
Truncated sentences and repetition of key words appeared characteristic of generative AI applications like ChatGPT.
Below it was a shorter editorial about the achievements of MMA professional Israel Adesanya.
Both also appeared to draw heavily on articles by Herald journalists – Gregor Paul on 18 July and Christopher Reive on 17 July respectively.
Mediawatch ran both editorials through AI detection tools and several returned positive results.
The very first Editorial in the NZ Herald was calling on white New Zealanders to go to war with Māori, it has always been the voice of the redneck settler cracker and it remains so today.
There’s NEVER been a better time to buy a house, and why is that?
Because NZ Herald is a pimp for the Real Estate Industry and draw most of their dwindling revenue from real estate now.
That need to satisfy the Real Estate Pimps overshadows every other editorial instinct.
The NZ Herald has been a mouthpiece for the polluters, for the right and for the Real Estate Industry for such a long time the propaganda blends effortlessly into one long lie about who we are as people and the things we value.
The less said about their disastrous Chinese Edition that literally takes orders directly from Beijing the better.
News that the NZ Herald has walked away from the only thing they had left, an Editorial voice, and left it to fucking AI is an audacity beyond hilarity.
What’s the fucking point of reading the words of a fucking Robot for our news?
While the Herald is a disgrace, alt-Right Billionaire Jim Grenon taking it over and weaponising it into a culture war hate platform will make things a billion times worse!
Sure the Herald is a redneck racist rag hell bent on defending the capitalists, but what Grenon could do with it is a far deeper threat to us all.
Currently the Herald acknowledges 2 + 2 =4 .
Under an alt-Right Billionaire with radicalised culture war hate, 2 + 2 = whatever they say it equals.
Sure the Herald has done itself no favours, but losing it to alt-Right culture war nutters will do us all no favours.
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So the MSM has been reduced to twinkle-sparkle for exhausted minds. Just like RNZ, the Listener, TVNZ etc and virtually all newspapers here. Brainwash the common people then fuck them over. Are we being hunted like animals by digital, humanoid creatures not of this earth? I sometimes wonder…
Pulp
Common People.
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Roge Douglas was wrong, not the devil. I once promised myself to piss on his grave, but got over it 30 odd years ago. He is a duffer, Killer. Our worst enemies are numbnuts. The Right is driven by conspiracy — we Lefties must remember more cock-ups than conspiracies. Reason is our heart.
I do a gardening run, there is a whole group of folk who believe I’m the very devil because I was human. They didn’t learn the phrase I mentioned. Not ideas people. Actually, very few ideas people. Why the rich roll them up for them.
Martyn – Your blog model is the future of news media – not the NZME model
Looking forward to changes at NZ Herald.