{"id":246848,"date":"2025-10-28T18:05:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T18:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/246848\/"},"modified":"2025-10-28T18:05:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T18:05:10","slug":"an-exclusive-re-joyce-matildas-slip-in-ai-slop-and-bom-bombs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/246848\/","title":{"rendered":"An exclusive, Re-Joyce! Matildas slip in AI slop, and BOM bombs"},"content":{"rendered":"

Age-old exclusive: Honestly, we just don\u2019t get it. If\u00a0The Age is so desperate to claim an exclusive, any exclusive, at least put some sauce on it. On today\u2019s front page, we are treated to three bylines and a big red *EXCLUSIVE* tag for a story with the headline (\u201cJoyce still to decide future\u201d) that rivals \u201cWorthwhile journalism initiative<\/a>\u201d and \u201cSurprises unlikely in Indiana<\/a>\u201d in the dull headline stakes:<\/p>\n

\"\"The Age (Image: Supplied)<\/p>\n

Okay, so the exclusive part is actually that they interviewed Joyce, but given what they were able to glean from him, The Sydney Morning Herald\u2019s approach \u2014 pointing to the interview and giving prominence to \u201cwait, did Joyce really stand in front of a clock below an exit sign?\u201d photo by the great Alex Ellinghausen \u2014 makes a lot more sense. \u2014CL<\/a><\/p>\n

\"\"The Sydney Morning Herald featuring Barnaby Joyce (Image: Supplied)<\/p>\n

AI don\u2019t like this one bit: Matildas star Hayley Raso recently hit the 100-game milestone. The team\u2019s social media accounts celebrated the achievement with this disconcerting AI animation of Raso over the years:<\/p>\n

Fans hated it, condemning the use of AI with comments like: \u201cEwww not the AI slop pleaseee\u2026 Raso is an icon and doesn\u2019t deserve to have her image disrespected like this\u201d and \u201cThere is still time to delete this\u201d.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not the first time the Matildas have published questionable AI marketing content. During the 2024 Olympics, Football Australia produced a \u201cpodcast\u201d narrated by an uncanny AI version of Steph Catley<\/a> that was unable to correctly pronounce her own name.<\/p>\n

But Tillies fans can find small comfort in knowing this is far from the worst AI rendering of female athletes in the past few days. The International Cricket Council posted this absolute abomination to spruik the Women\u2019s Cricket World Cup semi-finals:<\/p>\n

There is a point to be made about how \u2014 because AI-generated imagery reinforces patriarchal stereotypes \u2014 women\u2019s sports teams and associations should be cautious about using it. But also: those pictures are fucking terrifying. \u2014CA<\/a><\/p>\n

Flight suit: Anthony Albanese made headlines last week when he stepped off a Royal Australian Air Force flight returning from Washington wearing a Joy Division t-shirt. For example: \u201cCocky Albanese gives the finger to RAAF plane protocol\u201d was the headline in The Australian Financial Review.<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n

Nine News covered the shirt choice too, and one comment on the broadcaster\u2019s Instagram post would surely have made the prime minister stoked.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cWill I see you on my Aussie tour in July then,\u201d wrote Peter Hook, one of the founders of Joy Division and the band\u2019s successor, New Order. Hook is nowadays performing as Peter Hook and the Light, and that band will make a stop at Sydney\u2019s Enmore Theatre, a venue Albanese is certainly familiar with.<\/a> \u2014AN<\/a><\/p>\n

The Bureau BOMs again: The passions inflamed by last week\u2019s $4 million revamp of the Bureau of Meteorology website<\/a> are clear elsewhere in Crikey today. But even if several of our writers weren\u2019t moved to weigh in on the change, it would<\/a> be impossible<\/a> to miss<\/a>. Even the agency\u2019s own employees are open about their disdain: \u201cI don\u2019t like it myself,\u201d conceded BoM\u2019s Livio Regano<\/a> on ABC Radio earlier this week.<\/p>\n

The main thing that stood out in the coverage? The fact that no-one was referring to them as \u201cThe Bureau\u201d. You may remember that in 2022, as parts of Victoria, NSW and Tasmania were subject to severe flooding, and La Ni\u00f1a entered its third consecutive year, the BOM issued a press release requesting media organisations refer to it by its full name in the first instance, and \u201cThe Bureau\u201d thereafter.<\/p>\n

This is \u201cmore crucial than ever\u201d, the release said, given \u201can ever-increasing number of severe weather events\u201d, which didn\u2019t follow quite as logically as the authors may have thought. Collectively, we noted at the time, the rebrand, which cost $69,300<\/a> and was undertaken without securing all the necessary social media<\/a>, landed as a monumental prank. That literally no-one seems to have paid any attention and just kept on calling them BOM only strengthens that conclusion. \u2014CL<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Age-old exclusive: Honestly, we just don\u2019t get it. If\u00a0The Age is so desperate to claim an exclusive, any…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":246849,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[256,2324,254,255,64,63,68825,61838,6884,146595,44964,1685,588,105,146596,146597],"class_list":["post-246848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-anthony-albanese","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-barnaby-joyce","tag-bom","tag-bureau-of-meteorology","tag-joy-division","tag-matildas","tag-media","tag-sport","tag-technology","tag-the-age","tag-the-sydney-morning-herald"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246848\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/246849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}