All is not well in the fourth estate.
On Tuesday, the publisher of Axios hit “post” on an article about how he basically uses AI to read for him now, instead of recruiting the moldering neurons in his brain.
“AI has become my reading buddy,” began Nicholas Johnston, who formerly served as the news site’s editor-in-chief.
According to Johnston, the tedious process of actually reading a book “makes it easy to lose the thread.” James Fenimore Cooper’s “The Last of the Mohicans,” for example, was “too dense” for “casual vacation reading.” So instead, he typed in a prompt.
