David Caswell argues legacy newsrooms will not fundamentally transform for AI but will instead optimize existing workflows until they hit a wall built from old assumptions about articles and human-in-the-loop processes. Long interview, worth it. (Mirko Lorenz, Babylon)
- The negotiating position with AI companies comes down to your originality: what share of your output is genuinely original reporting versus processing of documents an LLM can already reach directly.
- On smaller languages, Caswell reframes the question: it is not a demand problem but an infrastructure and inclusion argument, like roads that some communities simply cannot access.
