According to Jim Albrecht, large language models pose an existential threat to journalists and the global news industry.
What if, every time you read an interesting news article, you were given immediate access to the journalist who wrote it so you could ask follow-up questions and discuss the material?
That’s the future former senior director of Google News Jim Albrecht laid out in a recent op-ed for the Washington Post.
Per the article, Albrecht believes modern large language models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT will radically change the news industry much like the advent of the world wide web did so in the early 2000s.
