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https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/04/07/associated-press-dumps-journalists-for-ai/>
"The
Associated Press is getting rid of journalists and pivoting a bit more
toward AI. It offered 120 journalists a buyout offer on Monday and it wants to
cut 5% globally.
The
AP ignored a request for discussion from the union, the News Media Guild,
last week.
AP is worried that newspapers aren’t buying its output any more. It thinks AI
can patch the financial hole.
The push is not yet about the news content — but it will be. Out-loud contempt
for journalists is now policy at
AP. Aimee Rinehart, the Senior Product
Manager for AI, wrote on the company Slack: “Resistance is futile.”
Rinehart, who oversees the wire service’s AI initiatives, suggested that in
the future, reporters could go to events, get quotes, plug them into a large
language model, and have the model generate a story, saving them time on
writing stories they don’t feel passionately about. She also noted that some
editors told her that they would “prefer to have reporters report and have
articles at least pre-written by AI.”"
Via Joseph Teller.
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
