alt Hacker NewsHow is your hit comment any better than the AI's initial post?
It lacked the context supplied later by Scott. Your's also lacks context and calls for much higher stake consequences.
How is your hit comment any better than the AI's initial post?
It lacked the context supplied later by Scott. Your's also lacks context and calls for much higher stake consequences.
My comment reports only facts and a few of my personal opinions on professional conduct in journalism.
I think you and I have a fundamental divergence on the definition of the term “hit comment”. Mine does not remotely qualify.
Telling the truth about someone isn’t a “hit” unless you are intentionally misrepresenting the state of affairs. I’m simply reposting accurate and direct information that is already public and already highlighted by TFA.
Ars obviously agrees with this assessment to some degree, as they didn’t issue a correction or retraction but completely deleted the original article - it now 404s. This, to me, is an implicit acknowledgment of the fact that someone fucked up bigtime.
A journalist getting fired because they didn’t do the basic thing that journalists are supposed to do each and every time they publish isn’t that big of a consequence. This wasn’t a casual “oopsie”, this was a basic dereliction of their core job function.