“Blake, I have terrible news. And I wanted you to know first,” Jack Buckby, my supervisor and friend, stated on July 25.
The content production company he had founded, Lancashire Hudson, had finally fallen victim to the bots.
In the media today, being a conservative doesn’t mean putting your head down and working in silence. The left will find you and finish you with its ever-more-potent digital golem.
When it comes to the daily news, marketing, and other writing they need for their newsletters and ad-supported websites, our financially challenged customers have been turning more and more to AI. Though it was far less expensive, this writing wasn’t quite as successful.
Overnight, Jack and I lost our jobs and our means of subsistence. Our company’s thirty bright, diligent writers and editors were also lost.
Although we frequently perceive AI as a danger to physical work and low-level service positions, the reality is that it is also directly aimed at creatives like us.
Not that we hadn’t anticipated it. It is abundantly evident that automating has immediate benefits, particularly for struggling businesses. Jack assures me, “AI is easy, affordable, and accessible.” “Even if it’s not always beneficial,”
Nevertheless, this short fix can have long-term consequences for the brand.
“It’s not the solution for companies looking to keep their audience and consumers happy,” Jack explains.
“Remember how you felt the first time you called a business and a robot answered the phone? Would you still feel obligated to read a newspaper story if you knew that it was the result of artificial intelligence? No. The honest answer is “no,” and your material should reflect this if your clients and audience are also people.
Because of this vision, Jack persisted in his struggle until the economic reality became unavoidable.
Businesses that don’t align with the prevailing progressive viewpoints are particularly hard hit, and many of Lancashire Hudson’s clients are among them.
Google has severely damaged the websites of my clients after they expressed moderate criticism about the vaccine rollout in their news search engines. Instead of posting anything against the vaccination, they expressed their disapproval of the requirements, even if the majority of the workers didn’t share their viewpoints. It was an opinion piece. And it was a ruined site,” Jack adds.
It was this sort of big-tech suppression that ultimately brought Lancashire Hudson to an end.
Jack has experienced this previously. If you are familiar with him, it is most likely because he was once the far-right English extremist’s enfant terrible.
Jack, a young guy from a working-class town in Northern England, became involved with a radical group of disgruntled and irate young men. They had legitimate reasons for their anger. Foreigners and “asylum seekers” had to fight for the few well-paying positions that remained. These young English lads were called moral slime just because they were blue collar, white, and English.
At that point, Jack realized that his new “community” actually harbored violence, anti-Semitism, and bigotry. Growing up, he became worried and retreated into a more conventionally conservative stance.
Through this experience, he came to believe that the “extreme far right” that the left despises was born out of the constant social and economic punishment that conservatives and working people receive. In his book “Monster of Their Own Making,” he relates the tale.
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