Bild-Zeitung dismisses more than 200 employees: AI is moving in

Bild-Zeitung dismisses more than 200 employees: AI is moving in: The number of dismissals is in the "low" three-digit range, according to company circles. "Low" can mean: 200 employees have to go. One "efforts" to "avoid operational dismissals and find socially acceptable solutions," says an e-mail signed by the "Bild" editors-in-chief Marion Horn and Robert Schneider, the head of the "Bild" group, Claudius Senst, and the "Bild" managing director Christoph Eck-Schmidt. The fact that Springer no longer discusses the use of AI, but carries it out, makes it clear in the passage of the mail, in which it says that "unfortunately you also have to part with colleagues who have tasks that are replaced by AI and/or processes in the digital world or do not find themselves in this new constellation with their current skills". Anyone who is no longer needed is no longer a secret: "The functions of editorial managers, paper makers, proofreaders, secretariats and photo editors will no longer exist as they do today." According to Springer, this is not due to the use of AI, but to changed workflows independently. Regional expenditure is eliminated The regional editions of the "Bild" Leipzig, Dresden and Chemnitz fall away and are published in a Saxony edition. The D�sseldorf and Cologne locations merge into "Bild Rheinland", the tabloid edition of "Bild" no longer appears in Hamburg. In all editions, regional reporting shrinks to one side of local and one side of sports.