[dragontamer]

A decent newspaper today in 2025 writes slop for their website to ensure daily engagement with their readers. To the point that people are talking about AI articles, literally serving slop.

Maybe they have a few AP articles thrown in there.

We have to acknowledge what has changed in our world and why things are the way that they are. Perhaps daily news is simply not profitable enough to provide us with quality information, and our economic incentives (namely advertising dollars from websites, YouTube, TikTok and the like) are having an adverse effect on quality.

[prerok]

Did you mean it was decent in the past?

I think the GP's statement was that there are almost no decent newspapers anymore, which I think nobody would disagree with.

[zahlman]

> A decent newspaper today in 2025 writes slop for their website to ensure daily engagement with their readers. To the point that people are talking about AI articles, literally serving slop.

> Maybe they have a few AP articles thrown in there.

I've seen signs of AI slop on AP (and Reuters).