Fall of the Fourth Estate: A Critique of Mass Media

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Nope, no thanks, not interested, who the hell cares, etc.

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BREAKING: 28-Year-Old Woman Masturbates

Thanks for the important news, NYT :roll_eyes:

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ChatGPT is cheating on me?!??!?

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Quite the twist on students using it to cheat.

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Wait…I thought they weren’t endorsing people anymore, so as to remain unbiased? Does this mean they were full of shit this whole time? I’m shocked.

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One day, I’ll tell you the very fun story about how I spoke with a cis reporter “investigating” trans communities.

When I told him I was non-binary, he proceeded to stare at my tits, then my croch, then my tits, then back… trying to figure out what type I was.

Journalism! Investigations! Help!

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Who needs democracy anyway?

(Still to delicate for something like America über alles, though. Yet.)

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WaPo: It’s not journalism, it’s storytelling!

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“Democracy Dies at Circle Time”

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Non-paywalled version

https://archive.md/URkHY

It sounds like they’re hoping that AI slop will be better if they curate the training data feed more carefully. I don’t know how much AI garbage is because of bad training data and how much is because AI really is just a type of averaging. It’s not “thinking” about the meaning of the content at all, it’s just guessing the next word.

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Those are OK. But they could have just shortened it to “Democracy Dies.”

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That seems to be the message. “Democracy died in darkness, now who wants STORY TIME? Gather round for the Trump Propaganda Hour!” No Nazis will be assaulting the local library and banging on the windows to stop that

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Has anyone else seen Meet John Doe, where a newspaper’s lofty motto is being removed from the front of their building with a jackhammer?

The newspaper had been purchased by a megalomaniac who wanted to shift the paper’s focus away from journalism and on to making money.

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