• AdolfSchmitler@lemmy.world
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      57 minutes ago

      Apparently it was some kind of credit card fraud. They didnt have to do him so dirty like that, at least let him finish his succulent meal.

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    3 hours ago

    Who would’ve thought a country run by Pooh Bear would be so skilled at using honeypots.

  • Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de
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    A bit off topic, but does anyone else hate this fake structure that some articles have? Here it’s these “headings” printed bold.

    Why it matters:
    Driving the news:
    Meanwhile:
    Zoom out:
    Flashback:
    What they’re saying:

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      AI produces cookie-cutter bullshit.

      That said, at least for the time being, it gets down to brass tacks in the first paragraph or so. I guess they haven’t felt the need to keep your eyes on the page longer.

      Capitalist enshitifed journalism is the reason they’re ‘starving’ for readers. You can’t find a meat-created news article or a fucking recipe without sifting through 10 pages of hyperbole and nostalgia.

      Bring back the fucking newspaper article format where every word cost somebody money. Spend the money on paying someone to make sure the news is right and condense it into an article where your primary goal is conveying exactly what’s going on with a close fucking second goal of not wasting everyone’s time.

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      Seems super common in reporting as well, I am noting it with basically every NPR news story these days. LLM’s love outputting this format as well. Almost the same thing that is happening with most media, people are so unfocused that you have to repeat things 20 different ways for them to remember, and the lack of actual journalism means they need to fill time with the ‘big stories’.

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        You mean like Netflix making shows “second-screen” friendly? I doubt lack of focus ever really drove longer articles. It pushes them shorter and more towards bulleted lists and headlines only if anything.

        [Insert ad here. Lol.]

        Padding out the paragraph count just gives more spots for ads in between or more eyeball time for banner ads, and even if a site isn’t explicitly going for that, all the journalists (real or not) and LLMs are just trained to only write that way now.

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      3 hours ago

      So much is paywalled now that I haven’t read enough articles to even notice that format.

  • mefisdo_dot_info@lemmy.ca
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    2 hours ago

    Result of the investigation: great revenue stream, keep on! Also, nice idea to create plausible deniability through “affair”.

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    4 hours ago

    Makes me wonder if this gonna change GPU prices because ever since they started pandering to the crypto and AIslop crowd their fucking GPUs became out of reach to all but those with fuck-you money.

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      I wonder separately if he is in the Epstein files. He’s not ivy league, he and a bunch of these pricks like microsoft’s guy went to the same Indian University or something. And idk if he was big time enough for epstein to bother with when they were running that honeypot.

      Still, I wonder though.

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    10 hours ago

    If AI is so great, he could have avoided all this drama by just getting an AI mistress. What’s up with that Huang?

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    Just an affair? C’mon headline, it’s not every day we find out a billionaire and CEO has fallen for a foreign honeypot espionage operation