“Google Is Paying Reddit $60 Million for Fucksmith to Tell Its Users to Eat Glue”
“If Kevin Roose Was ChatGPT With A Spray-On Beard, Could Anyone Tell?
thank you to these new independent media companies like @404mediaco and Defector for giving us the headlines we deserve
@molly0xfff
You've probably heard of them, but I'll mention there are also news agencies like: https://forbiddenstories.org/
and https://www.bellingcat.com/ also on Discord
I have used the latter mostly and have seem them collaborate with other agencies to verify news material.
@molly0xfff@404mediaco one has to imagine that the people who thought it was a good idea to spend $60m on Reddit posts has not spent enough time on Reddit to know what they’re paying for. Google search is actively devolving into outright trolling its users lol
@molly0xfff@404mediaco 404 is strong evidence that the problem with tech journalism for so many years was its reliance on catering to social media algorithms in exchange for views. Like, is it just me or does it seem like the quality of journalism been in an inverse relationship with the quality of Twitter? Once everyone was forced to stop pretending it was a town square, we started seeing much better media!
@molly0xfff@404mediaco It really hit home to me how blindly these people believe that "scale is all you need" when I read about OpenAI developing a tool to transcribe YouTube videos because they ran out of text on the internet. (1) Garbage in, garbage out still applies, because "garbage" doesn't vary randomly from the truth and cancel itself out. (2) Exponential growth rarely continues for very long before running into limits.
I think we're pretty close to peak chatbot, and these people don't seem to have genuinely new ideas.