Could Artificial Intelligence Replace Royal Rota Journalism?

Sussex Global UK

This weeks podcast, takes a brief look into the world of Artificial Intelligence, and its place in an employment setting. Does it take jobs away from people, or does it free people up to do other things? I suspect it is a bit of both. In the setting where the tasks undertaken are repetitive, and do not take much thinking time, in order to produce the final outcome, there could be an argument for AI to find a home.

Royal Reporting is carried out by all the tabloids in the UK, and they all pretty much produce articles on the same topics and people every day. The analyst in me wonders why so many people have a job where they only write about a handful of people, and in reality, the majority of the subjects for the article are no longer working Royals anyway, so do not come under the remit of the Royal Rota. It seems money is the magnet. The printed and online media make more money for their packaged products when they write about the couple who stepped back and moved to another country. The fact that UK media is still harassing and abusing them, is a topic of previous podcasts, and I am fairly confident it will form part of some kind of legal action in years to come.

For this purpose of looking at AI, I consider that the number of journalists working in the Rota is at least three times too large for the targets of their remit, and for the final outcome of the product. When it gets to the stage that that each tabloid can churn out 5 articles per hour on The Sussexes and only write about one or more in a day of the Working Royals in the UK, then it indicates to me, that the content of those 5 articles per hour, are not deep, did not take much if any research and could be carried out by AI.