TroublesomeTalker

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⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI chatbots unable to accurately summarise news, BBC finds⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
It’s a “how the mighty have fallen” kind of thing. They are well into the click-bait farm mentality now - have been for a while.

It’s present on the news sites, but far worse on things where they know they steer opinion and discourse. They used to ensure political parties has coverage inline with their support, but for like 10 years prior to Brexit, they gave Farage and his Jackasses hugely disproportionate coverage - like 20X more than their base. This was at a time when SNP were doing very well and were frequently seen less than 2006 to 2009.

Current reporting is heavily spun and they definitely aren’t the worst in the world, but the are also definitely not the bastion of unbiased news I grew up with.

Until relatively recently you could see the deterioration by flipping to the world service, but that’s fallen into line now.

If you have the time to follow independent journalists the problem becomes clearer, if not, look at output from parody news sites - it’s telling that Private Eye and Newsthump manage the criticism that the BBC can’t seem to get too

Go look at the bylinetimes.com front page, grab a random stort and compare coverage with the BBC. One of these is crowd funded reporters and the other a national news site with great funding and legal obligations to report in the public interest.

I don’t hate them, they just need to be better.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI chatbots unable to accurately summarise news, BBC finds⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
But the BBC is increasingly unable to accurately report the news, so this finding is no real surprise.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Concord Director Steps Down As Studio Behind Historic PlayStation Flop Waits For Sony's Decision⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
What mystifies me is usually when they do this sort of thing they throw it on Plus and get a mountain of players. Fall guys, and Destruction All Stars spring to mind as examples. I guess the effect isn’t so strong with the new tiered system, but it may have saved them some face.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Everyone has value⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
Nah. It’s like frozen onions being cheaper than fresh. They are just orders of magnitude cheaper to ship and store and still be in a useful state. If you get artisanal fresh, never frozen bones they are a lot more expensive.