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I started my career in tech when I published a program in a French magazine called l’Ordinateur de Poche. Years, later, when I ran an independent Apple retail shop, I created a magazine to keep my customers informed. When the Internet took off, I dreamt of running my own technology blog. However, writing articles takes time, and while I do have more time now that I am retired, this project still has to compete with other projects that I have in mind. As a result, I decided to create a completely automated workflow for article publication, that included, research, translation (if necessary), edition and image creation and editing that would allow me to publish an article in under five minutes. The goal was to have my blog and not spend more than a couple of hours daily working on it.
Well, the application is now working and I have published slightly under 50 articles in a couple of days. It still takes me more than five minutes to write an article in most cases, but I have been optimizing the process and there are still opportunities to make the whole process even faster.
Obviously, the project uses a lot of AI. Source articles (often press releases) are automatically translated when necessary and when an article has multiple sources, the AI merges them automatically, creating a coherent text that serves as the cornerstone for the article. However, the final touch, which involves adding context and personal opinions as well as adding insight still takes most of the time. AI provides some real time savers, though. For example, the app automatically chooses blog categories and extracts tags (both can be manually overridden).
I am not familiar with how modern newspapers work, but it seems that what I just described is the short term future for most journalists (from what I have read, some types of articles are even automatically generated with no human intervention). Humans are still necessary but one person can now handle the work of many writers. Journalism used to be a very fun and prestigious job. Now, with less budget, productivity has to increase and it feels more like a day at the factory.
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