Between the replies and the quote tweets this is getting dragged all to hell. AJP funds good newsrooms but this is a wee bit ominous.
While there are plenty of private equity firms dressed up trenchcoats that say "press" on the front, I swear there's at least one tiny potential use case for responsible and ethical use of AI in the world of news. Unfortunately no one knows what it is yet, and instead we just get a thousand shitty AI-generated stories at the expense of journalists. In a bright beautiful utopia this $5M+ unearths some good use cases, but we'll see.