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      Isn’t he the one that has children, even more horrible than himself, lined up to take over his “legacy” when he kicks the bucket?

      Guess we can only hope that they’re incompetent 😓

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            Worth the watch if you like the idea of a political drama exploring the idea of “succession” for a dying Rupert Murdoch and his privileged heirs! The performances and writing are amazing, it lives up to the hype.

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        Or tear each other’s throats out and back stab each other until the legacy is ruined and crumbling.

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          I’m OK with that 👍

          Something funny about ruining his “legacy” — wouldn’t that only be possible by taking his fortune and doing something amazingly altruistic and good with it? 😅

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    I am sending my most evil prayers to Rupert Murdoch and its wretched company. May they adopt AI and lose their fan base.

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      Maybe it turns out that simply showing their readers a word cloud has the same effect as showing them an inflammatory article.

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        Conservative TV commentators love dropping buzzwords, dog whistles, and conspiracy theories, to the point of incoherence. Dear god it’s been word clouds all along…

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          Plus the other side MSNBC and CNN just feed people statements that are meant to make them upset, nervous and angry, all of the news media is hot garbage. I can’t stand any of it because it’s all blatant propaganda

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      May they adopt AI and lose their fan base.

      Nah. They’ll just worship their new AI overlords. It’s the next evolution of the cargo cult.

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    AI = profits! Except if you stop paying people a livable wage, they can’t buy your iPhones or your Teslas.

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    “That momentum is surely gathering pace in the age of generative AI, which we believe presents a remarkable opportunity to create a new stream of revenues, while allowing us to reduce costs across the business” …

    News Corp recently reduced staffing costs through widespread redundancies.

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      Did he just realize that a prompt to “write an article to defend position X or denigrate Y” can be entered into ChatGPT, rather than emailed to the newsroom?

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    I guess buying that online news law hasn’t been a great investment for Murdoch.