• vaguerant@fedia.io
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    5 days ago

    It’s worth knowing that this was in some kind of externally-authored, paid advertising insert. It’s a bad look regardless, but this isn’t AI writing the news, but AI writing the ads in-between the news.

    It reflects poorly on the Sun-Times as a business, but shouldn’t directly affect your feelings about their journalism and editorial staff, who weren’t responsible for this.

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      2 days ago

      Which interestingly enough implies that they are having so much trouble selling advertising, that they are making up nonsense and pretending it is advertising, so their remaining advertisers aren’t spooked away by the ghost town / dead mall atmosphere.

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        4 days ago

        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?