The best reminder of how distorted news stories tend to be is to be involved in something and then to read an account of it in the news. Is it different for anything else we read in the news?
And that's when, I assume, the reporter is trying to get it right.
That reminds of a story that was done in a trade magazine about my business. It was very inaccurate and I think made me look bad. And it wasn't even intentional, just poor reporting.
A few years alter when another journal wanted to do a story, I asked that I be able to review it before publication. The guy was relieved to have me ask and was glad to do that. Sure enough, inaccuracies had to be corrected. He had also given direct quotes from me that I had never said.
Neither publication was involved in cutting edge issues, and I think accuracy, to them, was somewhat superfluous. But we see the same thing in MSM, and if you're looking (and I am) it's easy enough to see the internal editorializing posing as reporting.
That's how unreliable AI is. Now, how much more reliable are our news sources and politicians?
The best reminder of how distorted news stories tend to be is to be involved in something and then to read an account of it in the news. Is it different for anything else we read in the news?
And that's when, I assume, the reporter is trying to get it right.
That reminds of a story that was done in a trade magazine about my business. It was very inaccurate and I think made me look bad. And it wasn't even intentional, just poor reporting.
A few years alter when another journal wanted to do a story, I asked that I be able to review it before publication. The guy was relieved to have me ask and was glad to do that. Sure enough, inaccuracies had to be corrected. He had also given direct quotes from me that I had never said.
Neither publication was involved in cutting edge issues, and I think accuracy, to them, was somewhat superfluous. But we see the same thing in MSM, and if you're looking (and I am) it's easy enough to see the internal editorializing posing as reporting.