Riana: I. FUCKING. CALLED. IT. I clearly remember telling a NZ government official at RightsCon nine months ago that this was going to happen, because OF COURSE something like the Epoch Times wants its garbage laundered and spit out as true facts by AI!

I. FUCKING. CALLED. IT. I clearly remember telling a NZ government official at RightsCon nine months ago that this was going to happen, because OF COURSE something like the Epoch Times wants its garbage laundered and spit out as true facts by AI!

The bots are now mostly scooping up data from right-wing sites since 90 percent of mainstream outlets are blocking scraping by OpenAI and others. What could possibly go wrong? @knibbs.bsky.social has the scoop www.wired.com/story/most-n...

Most Top News Sites Block AI Bots. Right-Wing Media Welcomes Themwww.wired.com Nearly 90 percent of top news outlets like 'The New York Times' now block AI data collection bots from OpenAI and others. Leading right-wing outlets like NewsMax and Breitbart mostly permit them.

Maybe people who go to a mechanized version of the telephone game to look for "true facts" should learn basic things about epistemology and research instead of doing that.

People aren't doing that. What's happening is people who want money for clicks are are prompting "write an article about " and blasting the media space with hundreds of blogs, articles, and videos generated that way. The pool is brackish, people struggle to drink cleanly from it.

I hate that search engine optimization spam. There are ways to dig through it if you're persistent, or if you just find a list of good sources that don't engage in clickbait/spam.

Well! I guess in a few months the AI WILL say all the slurs, and the chuds will hop up and down and clap their flippers and chortle with pleasure, mission accomplished, Ford's in his flivver, etc etc

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