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raincoletoday at 8:31 AM1 replyview on HN

A valuable lesson AI taught me is how bad articles on Bloomberg and Forbes are. They probably have always been this bad, but I were unaware of that until they started writing about AI (because, admittedly, I subconsciously thought well-known = good).


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IanCaltoday at 8:43 AM

There’s something called the Gell-Mann amnesia effect where people often see what you have but then go back to assuming the other stories are all reliable.

I used to love Private Eye and they have done great journalism that’s highly acclaimed, but the only thing they wrote that I really knew about (literally the office I was in) was outrageously wrong and would have been so easy to verify (ask literally anyone in the BBC building we were in to go to that floor, or take a tour or write an email). Can’t read it any more.

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