Ai star light… star might: Why the daily truth is already being controlled by robots
IT'S LIFE BUT NOT AS WE KNOW IT, DEREK
Well, it has happened – truth as we know it has exploded over what was once my universe.
I’m not an idiot, never have been. And I know where and when my profession has burned down lives.
But I also know how we have exposed thugs, thieves, liars and cheats – kings and queens, war lords and Donald Trump.
I believe I could stand up in any court and prove I have done more good than harm as a tabloid journalist.
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I was on the Sun when, one morning, I got a call from the newly launched Daily Star, a title brought in to being for no other reason than to fill spare capacity on the Daily Express’s presses in the heart of Manchester.
The idea was to turn out a newspaper that had a sense of humour, had a laugh, but shocked and, when it had to, turned out top-notch honest reporting.
It was a fast-moving world inside the Express’s iconic Deco-ish glass eye on the world.
So fast, that editors became stellar overnight, then burned out.
One day that moon-faced guru of tabloid-ism Derek Jamieson took over with the intention of making the Daily Star leave a shimmering stain across the stratosphere of news.
And this is what good ol’ Derek said at the paper’s first birthday party in ‘79: “Well, when we launched the Daily Star, they said we were a load of c*nts – well, they were right, we are the best c*nts in Fleet Street!”
And, we were, in so many ways.
For instance, I was allowed to write about the world’s first surf-boarding dog, the man who wanted to straighten the Leaning Tower of Pisa – and then we found Elvis hiding on the Moon!
It was good fun – but it had its serious side too. The Daily Star sent me on a hunt for paedophiles and I exposed BBC presenter Stuart Hall who had just opened a clock museum … he stupidly asked me where he could find young girls. He thought it was macho and funny.
But me, Derek and the Daily Star editorial team couldn’t see the joke – so we exposed him, way before he was jailed. We exposed MP Cyril Smith for spanking young boys in care too – and Jimmy Savile, for being Jimmy Savile.
Yep, I was in my early twenties and making a living by exposing criminals, politicians and perverts and having a laugh along the way!
And Derek made sure we told the truth, unless we were having a joke with our readers.
Then today this appeared below a story: “This article was crafted with the help of an AI tool, which speeds up Daily Star's editorial research. An editor reviewed this content before it was published.”
That didn’t make me laugh at all. No. And Derek must be turning in his grave screaming in his toothy Cockney blitz: “What a load of c*nts!”
Commerce and corporate has finally fatally stabbed the truth. It’s obviously cheaper to send out a robot ‘reporter’ than a real one.
A robot scanning Wikipedia for facts … will that help people trust the news industry that already has the reputation of a twisted Pinocchio?
A robot scanning the decades of lies, propaganda, conspiracy theories and mistakes bursting like a cheap duvet across the newsdesk.
A ROBOT WRITING ABOUT HUMAN LIVES!
IT IS LIFE BUT NOT AS WE KNOW IT, DEREK.
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