Exactly. People have no idea that because the only thing #LLM-driven #AI is actually good at is faking human writing patterns via statistics, is worse at everything than the tools built for those things.
I've lost track of how many blank stares I've got, including from engineers & statisticians, when I tell them that literally the only thing this #tech does is predict the next language token - nothing else.
Because #ThePress has allowed the marketing to be the story.
@femme_mal - and #ThePress giving it to him. Editorial decision makers REALLY need to learn to distinguish between "person worth listening to" & "random asshole"...
If you missed this amazing webinar, the speaker's [The Intercept_ Security Researcher Nikita Mazurov] slides from the Safeguarding Journalism in the AI Era (as part of the Press Freedom Defense Fund series) are available online now at https://theintercept.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/PFDF-Safeguarding-Journalism-in-the-AI-Era.pdf The webinar organizer's contact info is on the last slide.
#AI #generativeAI #privacy #security #ThePress #journalism #organizers #cybersecurity #infosec #tech #safety
You know, I'm pretty tired of seeing references to current goings-on in terms of, say, "a wider backlash to DEI" so this is for #journalists everywhere: There is no "wider" anything.
I'm perfectly serious. All of *gestures at everything* is the result of an extremely narrow "backlash" - a concerted effort from a very small interest group with outsized influence, in no small part thanks to exactly this kind of criti-hype'y coverage.
Do better.
I do not fucking understand: Why, after a couple of thousand words about how badly it works & always will, does Chris Mims still need to sign off on the idea that AI is fantastic & inevitable!?
Why do tech writers do this shit constantly? Roko's Basilisk? Kickback? Stupidity? Malevolence? What could possibly such an overpowering reason that they simply cannot read even their own writing on the wall?
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/how-ai-thinks-356969f8?st=JK4ruj #tech #ai #media #ThePress #journalism
No, seriously - even Matt fucking Taibbi got this as far back as the Tea Party: They're full of shit, top to bottom 👉 https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/the-truth-about-the-tea-party-188228/ (sidebar: What the fuck happened to that guy?)
Yet #ThePress still doesn't call 47 a liar. They still call racists & bigots anything but, favoring words like "populist" as if they're popular & "controversial" as if they boldly stand for something. They still swaddle overt facts like Nazi salutes in weasel words.
All doing nothing but privileging nazis.
I don't give many shits about Joe Rogan but this one is kind-of important - in fact it's what Cody's old colleague Jason Pargin (who I usually respect a lot) should have said instead of "Maybe deplatforming bigots was wrong".
The problem isn't even bigots; the problem is an entire #media #culture of letting people pretend to care about issues when they SUPER-OPENLY don't, which privileges bigots.
It's pretending people who are full of shit aren't.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zt7hAFFqfI #resist #ThePress
If two dudes are punching each other, would you say a fight's about to break out? If the flames are rising, would you say a fire might happen? If a guy in a mask is holding a gun at the teller, would you wonder about the risk of a possible bank robbery?
No, right?
Then fucking STOP! talking about the US situation as if bad things may / are about to happen!
There's no place for this facism to go to get any more real than it already is.
Uh, #ThePress? Y'all do know that Signal, the app, is not, in fact, among the pertinent subjects concering #signalgate, right...? - because reading the coverage very much suggests you don't...
#Ukraine #OvalOffice #ThePress and #TheSuit [1]
The president has no clothes !
"Zelensky Hits Back At Reporter Over Attire: 'I Will Wear Costume' After War"
by NewsweekMag
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/5-GIaGXFkz4
Quote by NwM:
"Feb 28, 2025
During a meeting in the Oval Office, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky clapped back at a reporter who asked "why" he doesn't wear a suit. Zelensky said, "I will wear costume after this war will finish."
No, BBC - that's the wrong headline. The correct one reads "Random civilian somehow sends an email to every government employee".
Which of course also means the topic of the article is A. how in the name of Bonaparte's testicles does that happen, B. is that even legal & if you have time/space, C. by the way the email is completely fucking ridiculous, as anyone with an iota of human resource management & leadership knowledge will tell you.
https://mastodon.social/@br00t4c/114054908137505659 #GetItRight #ThePress #News
🥥 Poking out their eyes to spite their faces:
Trump's State Department orders cancellation of media subscriptions around the world.
Foreign posts ordered to end all "non-mission critical" news subscriptions in Trump directive that will clearly "endanger lives."
Yet more counter-productive idiocy from a stupidly evil regime.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/19/state-department-media-subscriptions-cancelled
🥥
#USPolitics #StateDepartment #ThePress #TuckersBalls
Yes, #ThePress is billionaire controlled & that's a problem, but an even bigger one is, they've voluntarily, even gleefully made this happen all by themselves. Even though journalism 101 should have taught them it's wrong, most of them think it's their job to be neutral & as a result they'll never tell you if something is bad - a mechanism Bad People™️ were the first to notice & have exploited to get us where we are. This is a problem globally & if we don't fix it, shit will keep happening.
Since not a single major outlet can even seem to hold Elmo accountable for making a Nazi salute in front of running cameras - cradling the extremely obvious fact of his action in reams of weasel words like "appears to", "accused of" etc. - I wouldn't put a whole lot of stock in them holding the incoming facist regime accountable for anything...
https://beige.party/@GrimmReality/113864437394395449 #news #media #ThePress
Orange Julius has no idea why he wants Greenland or what to do with it. He's just a greedy baby who has spent his entire life grabbing anything he can reach - mostly just so nobody else can have it.
Consider this a service announcement to help you ignore all the "Here's what TFG's Greenland proposal means..." bullshit you're seeing in mainstream media.
@GW Once again: It would not only have been easy, but also proper journalism, for #ThePress to be like "The GOP promises to make life better for working people, just like they have always promised but never, ever done, here's a bunch of examples of the same lie".
That's what should happen; if someone says it's raining you look out the window to see if they're right. Maybe check their window to tell if they're deliberately lying.
That's the job that the 4th Estate refuses to do & here we are.
That is to say, facts won't stop him because #ThePress, more than happy to act as a megaphone for the lies & insanity of him & his ilk, actively refuses to make said facts available to the public.
It's not profitable, you see.
"There will be people who say, “Hey, you work for a company and that company has the right to expect employees to adhere to what’s good for the company”. That’s true except we’re talking about news organizations that have public obligations and who are obliged to nurture a free press in a democracy. Owners of such press organizations are responsible for safeguarding that free press..." - Ann Telnaes
#ThePress is not a business; it's the 4th Estate of democrary.
How is that "seeming" to backtrack? That's backtracking! Why in the name of unholy FUCK!! does #ThePress insist on adding thick cakes of makeup to everything this lying sack of horse manure says & does!? 🤬
This. They got *every single word* significantly wrong. WORDS FUCKING MATTER, #ThePress - and words are literally your job so maybe you assholes should start getting this shit right!? 🤬
