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newsweek is cooked (hexbear.net)
submitted 3 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

pin stuck to the triple intersection point in the venn diagram of slop/news/chapotraphouse

apparently, they've been doing these 'we asked chatGPT' articles for a while now

WHY did they pick nancy reagan for the photo tho

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[-] [email protected] 49 points 3 weeks ago

Nothing more tired than articles that talk about how ChatGPT responded to a prompt.

[-] [email protected] 29 points 3 weeks ago

It sucked ass 15 years ago when "this is a what somebody had to say about something on Twitter" became a common article format

[-] [email protected] 12 points 3 weeks ago

Jon Stewart was right when he said doing that was like reading what people wrote on the bathroom walls.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago

bathroom walls are more interesting.

... and that's how i met your mother.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 3 weeks ago

Same energy as when people answer a question with LLM output.

[-] [email protected] 37 points 3 weeks ago

We asked a Furby who the best president is and the results were SHOCKING.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 3 weeks ago

I don't think we've ever had a president named Oopa Guppa Looloo

[-] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago

I had a Furby and when the batteries were dying it'd hang and go bbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeppppppppppppppppp real loud, I'd imagine some six figure hotshit reporter would be like "this doesn't bode well for democracy".

[-] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

I'm usually not very superstitious, but Furbys are 100% haunted or some shit

[-] [email protected] 31 points 3 weeks ago

Newsweek was bought by the Moonies/a South Korean cult in 2013 and has rapidly gone downhill after that, not that it ever was a bastion of excellence in journalism

[-] [email protected] 14 points 3 weeks ago

Oh, it was the moonies. I thought it was the Koch's... Turns out the Koch's bought Time magazine via Meredith Corp. Getting my dystopian lore mixed up. yea

[-] [email protected] 17 points 3 weeks ago

A magazine but it's just a 2-page list of ChatGPT prompts that you can copy-paste to generate the content on your own.

[-] [email protected] 16 points 3 weeks ago

Just asked it the same prompt in the subtitle. It ranked FDR first.

[-] [email protected] 15 points 3 weeks ago

Wow, you are asking ChatGPT to generate listicles for you? Honestly, that is not only creative -- it's absolutely brilliant.

[-] bdonvr 6 points 3 weeks ago

I'm pretty sure the number of listicles that aren't LLM generated in the past 5 years has become within a rounding error of 100%

[-] [email protected] 14 points 3 weeks ago

Wikipedia hasn't considered them a reliable source for years.

[-] [email protected] 12 points 3 weeks ago

So many things wrong with this, but recency bias, more "content" being produced than ever before, and unprecedented unity of state media would obviously lead ChatGPT to like the current president above others.

[-] [email protected] 12 points 3 weeks ago

They'll only mention such things for a short time before it will just be implied.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

Nancy’s “just say no” signs were easily repurposed with a well placed “w” at the end.

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