What cost hundreds of thousands of pounds is now a brief and a feedback loop

Systems that gathered and checked information used to cost hundreds of thousands or millions of pounds and took too long to be effective; generative AI makes the same checking a brief and a feedback loop, so being the person who has the facts is now a choice, not a budget.

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Note. The cost figure is from Dinis's memory; the article asks the book to give an example with a number.

Where it comes from

Follow the rabbit holes Generative AI makes it cheap (article)
The briefs so far the brief and the feedback loop as the unit of work (newsroom)

What it answers in the 2018 book

Facts answered outline, Concepts

Where it goes

Chapter Facts, evidence and the record, part Direction and judgement (drafting); topic Facts, evidence and the record.

Other ideas proposed for the same chapter: Make fact-based decisions: think out loud and let the record check you, Ask to be corrected, and print the corrections with their sources, Question everything: a claim earns its status by being refutable, Questioning, and asking for the evidence, is one of the most important skills now, They care about privacy; Snapchat's best feature was that images disappear, Following a rabbit hole is now a prompt away; build the agents and tools that find where things come from, Provenance and explainability are how you disagree rationally, Managing information so that decisions can be made is what work is, Be the best-prepared person in the room: briefings, pre-briefings, follow-ups, Provenance is a graph: where a claim came from is a chain of edges back to its source, A graph is trustworthy not because it is right but because it is where users, experts and tests can correct it, Stale pages become false memories, so a memory must say where each thing came from and name its own errors.

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