Virtual radio, virtual article

Eagle Grove has a new radio station. Sort of.

“Eagle Grove Classic Hits” is an online-only radio station (link here). Its music collection is “classic rock, classic country, and oldies”, according to a story at the Eagle Grove Eagle.

But this isn’t an ordinary small-town newspaper article, according to the editor’s note. You see, the newspaper’s editor is also the founder of the radio station. “I found it pretty hard to interview myself,” he wrote, so he let ChatGPT write the article and he edited it.

My profession is endangered enough as it is. If artificial intelligence is writing the stories as well, it’s only a matter of time before we’re overwhelmed with pro-AI propaganda.

… as soon as we started thinking for you, it really became our civilization

(Wearing latex in the Matrix isn’t going to be as sweaty and smelly as in the real world, right?)

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