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jgalt212yesterday at 5:11 PM2 repliesview on HN

truth. Good on The Guardian. I'm pretty bummed The Economist got fooled. Either that, or they did it for the clicks. Either way, I'm disappointed.

Why the OpenAI escape is the most worrying AI mishap yet

https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2026/07/22/...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49016378


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sscaryterryyesterday at 7:43 PM

The reason for this is simple. There aren't any (or few) people who understand how AI/LLMs actually work employed by these organisations.

Having said that, if knowledgeable people were to write these articles, you'd end up with boring, dry, truthful content.

elpyesterday at 6:47 PM

I love the Economist but the are hopeless with AI. Most of their articles on subject sound like they were written by the Anthropic marketing department.

Their Insider video interview things are sponsored by Anthropic. Supposedly "Insider is a product of The Economist and thus editorially independent" but it's hard not to raise an eyebrow.

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