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Chicago Sun-Times prints summer reading list full of fake books (arstechnica.com)
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[–] 0 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Well then you are lost. "Fuck the people in charge who did this and fuck their workers who had nothing to do with it." If your boss sucks, should I blame you for their mistakes?

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    If I'm a media enterprise, probably, yeah.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    Perhaps I wasn't clear. The journalists and editorial staff at the Chicago Sun-Times aren't media enterprises, they are human persons. I'm not asking you to imagine yourself as a corporation, I'm asking you to imagine that you are a person. If you were a person and your boss did something bad without your knowledge or consent, are you, a person, to blame for your boss' actions?

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    No, I understand what you mean and to that point yes you're right I shouldn't hold the employees of the Chicago Sun-Times accountable for using AI slop in their paper.

    But that's just not the way my - or anyone's - mind processes it. "The Chicago Sun-Times" for all intents and purposes is a monolith which produces a newspaper. "They" made a very unfortunate decision to allow AI content in that paper. It has damaged their reputation.

    So next time I see "Chicago Sun-Times" I won't be thinking about the person who does the layouts or the regional sales person or any of that, I'll be thinking "oh yeah, they got bitten hard by a stupid decision to allow AI slop in their paper".

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