Mic Wright

AI;DR: Journalism's quislings for AI and why I'll never use AI to write this newsletter The future of journalism doesn't have to be AI-generated; we can and should resist.

“AI journalism is poison; it will further lead to a diseased public conversation & a further sickening of society.”

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Accenture has begun monitoring staff use of its AI tools as part of how it decides top-level promotions, as consultancies push reluctant employees to adopt the technology. The Dublin-headquartered firm told associate directors and senior managers that promotion to leadership positions would require "regular adoption" of AI, according to people familiar with the matter and an internal email seen by the FT. This month Accenture started to collect data on individual weekly log-ins to its AI tools for some senior employees.

"Use of our key tools will be a visible input to talent discussions" during this summer's leadership-level promotion decisions, the email said. The New York-listed group says it has more than 550,000 people trained in generative AI. The tools include AI Refinery, which Accenture said helps companies "turn raw AI technology into useful business solutions", along with SynOps, an "innovative human-machine operating 'engine' that optimises the synergy of data, applied intelligence, digital technologies and talent to help organisations transform business operations" The push underlines the challenges consulting groups face when persuading senior employees and partners to adapt to Al.

Is it normal that convincing people to use amazing labour-saving tools requires threats and compulsion? If they were good and helpful, surely people would use them. Unless we’re saying everyone is stupid.

Hurrah!

What a great birthday present for Andrew Mountbatte-Windsor.

Journalist Rejects AI-Generated Content in Newsrooms - National Today In this edition of his newsletter, Mic Wright strongly condemns the use of AI-generated content in journalism, arguing that it represents a betrayal of readers and a devaluation of the craft of writin...

I’m pretty sure this is an AI-generated news story about my newsletter saying I’ll never use AI to write it. nationaltoday.com/us/oh/clevel...

Wise!

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Oh, it is.

I can’t afford to turn on my Aga this winter Our writer’s once cosy Norfolk home is feeling the chill as energy bills rise – how will she and her family cope?

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Yep!

Of course, I live in the civilised imperial core of Norfolk so…

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The locals can be unforgiving: one friend, who had a baby with a much older landowner, says she was “blacklisted” by his friends when she left him. I know of another woman who’s been ostracised by the Mean Girls prep school mummies since leaving her husband and shacking up with her in-laws’ gardener.

It’s a dangerous thing when these people get bored.

Both fine options.

Co-signed.

The writer is a posh woman who bugged out of London during the pandemic and is surprised to find that Norfolk is different from Hampstead.

Norfolk’s the perfect place to banish Andrew to – it’s brutal The former Prince’s exile to turnip country is likely to be even chillier than you might imagine – and the locals can be unforgiving

Yes, we locals can be “unforgiving” and this Telegraph comment piece can fuck off as much as Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor.

Cheers!

Charlie. The press calls Charles Salvador aka. Charles Bronson "Britain's notorious prisoner" but who gave him that label? And should it mean he's never allowed to be free?

Since Charles Bronson is back in the news, here’s what I wrote about media coverage of him back in 2023 open.substack.com/pub/brokenbo...

Haha.

I read it and I don’t *think* I’m an AI.

I’m with you.

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Increasingly so.

I worked with Martin and consider him a good friend. Derek was a good online friend too. A wonderful presence here and elsewhere. May his memory be a blessing.

Yes. I’m more like Marvin.

This is ofc bang on. One additional point: all of the tactics McSweeney deployed against Corbyn had been used against the pro-independence campaign in Scotland pre-2014, to much Labour rejoicing.

Before Labour Together tried to smear Sunday Times journalists, it was a vital source for them The real problem is that the Starmtroopers turned their dirty tricks on Murdoch's men.

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