David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)
SHAPIRO: Ok, so you’ve spent your career television without AI, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had that tool to solve those thorny problems…
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: … Or saying…
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: … Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don’t think AI can challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you’re trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you’re stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an AI and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I’d rather put a gun in my mouth.
NPR has increasingly more chickenshit journalists at their employ. A shame because even now radio is powerful media that can change and influence minds, they just use more of their airtime to shill for AI instead of doing real journalism
They gotta shill for AI because the goal is total mass surveillance on the general public with total privacy for the rich kiddie fuckers.
Oh and also ginning up fake “evidence” to pin on dissidents.
They shill for AI because that’s who pays their bills. Lots of big tech and AI companies are major NPR donors.
The rich don’t necessarily get privacy all the time. But they get impunity for what people do see.
we are in this mess because of consistent messaging on conservative talk radio for blue collar logistics workers who are “self employed”
You think asking a question - providing the opportunity to give this answer - is chicken shit?
Sorry but this is one of the problems of our time. It’s not the job of a journalist to ask questions whose premises you agree with for goodness’ sake.
Attempting to discredit trusted orgs like NPR is a long beloved conservative tactic
It’s mostly the ads they run for it every hour and that they are obviously scared to irk this administration. He did get good answers out of this guy.
Ari Shapiro isn’t chickenshit. It’s a fair question in the context of the interview, and the response to the question is awesome.
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They don’t even have the spine to stand up to a pedophile president who defunded them.