Mayor Q Slams Kansas City Star AI Slop

Kansas City's Mayor is an avid user of tech and social media and in his latest post he calls out the local "paper-of-record" for deploying machine learning to craft mostly worthless "news" stories. 

Noticed by BEST & BRIGHTEST TKC READERS . . . Check the critique: 

"I’m troubled by the growing number of posts produced by or, as here, summarized by AI on the Kansas City Star website and other media sources. I disagree often with human journalists, but judgment, empathy, and inquiry are the work of real people—reporters, writers, editors, and photographers. Maybe I’m an old timer (as a geriatric millennial), but budget challenges should lead to investment in people, not aimless, machine-generated clicks."

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Mayor Q On FB: "Many of the real people at the Star continue to produce good work. They deserve our subscriptions, not AI. AI is a worthy tool to support journalists. It should not replace them."