I think the part that concerns me most is how the Washington Post and Politico were sourcing (as in, citing as reference) this AI-riddled site in their articles, which contained stolen content from those very sites in the first place.
The race to publish is causing hallucinations even in human-written content because no one can be bothered to fact check anymore, not even news publishers themselves.
The circular sourcing problem has been going on for a long time, but the modern internet has amplified it to levels of extreme absurdity. There isn’t a solution because humans are inherently lazy and fact checking requires effort. When the majority of your consumer base doesn’t care, then there’s no financial incentive to care on the part of the publishers. Maybe I’m being too nihilistic, but that’s how I see it these days.
College students are required to cite everything and no plagiarism or bullshitting allowed, and everything must be spelled correctly.
as soon as they graduate, they go into journalism and all those rules fly out the window. apparently.
Yeah, this doesn’t even seem that difficult of a problem. Students can do it, so why can’t journalists?
No such thing as “hallucinations” in human-ridden content.
That’s called incompetence and negligence.
LSD: “Do I mean nothing to you?”
Haha understood! But I’m talking about news writing. Unless you’re implying that some reporters use LSD while writing? :)
Nah. The news itself is written by LSD. Cuts out the middle man of humans.
Everyone thinks they’re Hunter S. Thompson.
News doesn’t consider itself news anymore, it considers itself entertainment. Bring back the regulations that Reagan got rid of in the 80s.
And the Telecommunications Act that Clinton signed in 96 let corporate media consolidate all of the news organizations under a small group of umbrellas, making it easier to use news reporting to push political agendas.
That act also ruined municipal internet for decades and is why we have such shitty rural internet in most of America
It’s extremely dangerous to our democracy.
I feel like it’s becoming “who will the AI idiot machine fuck over today” news time. Wait until it becomes too many to report on.
