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@laslab@waag.social  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

The Guardian signed a partnership with OpenAI in February this year. BTW: They never published this fact on their own site.
http://openai.com/index/openai-and-guardian-media-group-launch-content-partnership/

A year before they have published an article about their approach to GenAI-tools, very much in contrast with their contract with OpenAI.
https://www.theguardian.com/help/insideguardian/2023/jun/16/the-guardians-approach-to-generative-ai

I will stop supporting the Guardian and so should you.
#OpenAI#journalism#AI#GenAI #theguardian

@TheGuardian_uk
@guardian
@guardiannews
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@laslab@waag.social  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

The Guardian signed a partnership with OpenAI in February this year. BTW: They never published this fact on their own site.
http://openai.com/index/openai-and-guardian-media-group-launch-content-partnership/

A year before they have published an article about their approach to GenAI-tools, very much in contrast with their contract with OpenAI.
https://www.theguardian.com/help/insideguardian/2023/jun/16/the-guardians-approach-to-generative-ai

I will stop supporting the Guardian and so should you.
#OpenAI#journalism#AI#GenAI #theguardian

@TheGuardian_uk
@guardian
@guardiannews
El Duvelle
@elduvelle@neuromatch.social  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

"Climate groups call for UK wealth tax to make super-rich fund sustainable economy"
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jul/15/climate-groups-call-uk-wealth-tax-make-super-rich-fund-sustainable-economy

Yes! They pollute the most so they should contribute the most to fix the problem!
#TheGuardian#SaveThePlanet
A.A. Delafin, blackguard
@mysteriarch@climatejustice.social  ·  activity timestamp last month

There's a lot of things wrong with #TheGuardian but I do appreciate their language use on #ClimateCrisis reporting.

"Global heating caused by the burning of fossil fuels."

That's clear and reminds people of the causes. I wish other news media (such as here in Belgium) wouldn't shy away from using similar language. But they're concerned in coming across as 'too alarmist' - while they aren't nearly alarmist enough, instead showing images of happy people in the sun during continent wide heat waves...

#ClimateDiary
A.A. Delafin, blackguard
@mysteriarch@climatejustice.social  ·  activity timestamp last month

There's a lot of things wrong with #TheGuardian but I do appreciate their language use on #ClimateCrisis reporting.

"Global heating caused by the burning of fossil fuels."

That's clear and reminds people of the causes. I wish other news media (such as here in Belgium) wouldn't shy away from using similar language. But they're concerned in coming across as 'too alarmist' - while they aren't nearly alarmist enough, instead showing images of happy people in the sun during continent wide heat waves...

#ClimateDiary
El Duvelle
@elduvelle@neuromatch.social  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago

This is obviously bad from #whatsapp, but also, the way the journalist describes what the chatbot does, as if it had intentions, is pretty bad too.

"It was the beginning of a bizarre exchange of the kind more and more people are having with AI systems, in which chatbots try to negotiate their way out of trouble, deflect attention from their mistakes and contradict themselves, all in an attempt to continue to appear useful."

No, the chatbot isn't "trying to negotiate", and is not "attempting to appear useful". It's a program that follows programming rules to output something that looks like English langage. It doesn't have desires or intentions, and it cannot lie because it doesn't know what truth is.

‘It’s terrifying’: WhatsApp AI helper mistakenly shares user’s number
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jun/18/whatsapp-ai-helper-mistakenly-shares-users-number?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

#genAI#ChatBot#TheGuardian