A further update: The AI-generated "Heat Index" summer guide was also distributed with the Philadelphia Tribune, [@TheAtlantic](https://flipboard.com/@TheAtlantic ) reports, under the headline "Slop the Presses."
"This story has layers, all of them a depressing case study. The very existence of a package like 'Heat Index' is the result of a local-media industry that’s been hollowed out by the internet, plummeting advertising, private-equity firms, and a lack of investment and interest in regional newspapers. In this precarious environment, thinned-out and underpaid editorial staff under constant threat of layoffs and with few resources are forced to cut corners for publishers who are frantically trying to turn a profit in a dying industry. It stands to reason that some of these harried staffers, and any freelancers they employ, now armed with automated tools such as generative AI, would use them to stay afloat," writes Damon Beres and Charlie Warzel, who spoke to Marco Buscaglia about the circumstances that led to his writing the Heat Index guide.
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