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0 pointsstvltvs10d ago0 comments

Yeah, that was a classic ad hominem, addressing the author instead of the content of what's said.

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I pointed out the very specific major flaw, which is that it had one not entirely relevant source, which makes sense for a high school newspaper.

I'm sure that high school journalism has some great outliers, but in general, I don't think we're the intended audience, nor that the journalistic standards are up to what we'd expect from a better source.

Did you read the article? It's six tiny paragraphs and provides hardly any actual data or reporting.

If this was a positive piece about AI of similar quality, I can't help but suspect you'd be responding differently.

stvltvsOP7d ago

> It's six tiny paragraphs and provides hardly any actual data or reporting.

That's a fair criticism that doesn't rely on the identity of the author.

supern0va6d ago

It wasn't about the identity of the author. It was about the identity of the institution, which is not designed to have the rigor and other institutional structures of a proper journalistic organization.

I just meant to convey that "don't post a news piece from a high school newspaper" is a reasonable rough heuristic that might want to be applied before posting something here.

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