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If you read carefully, you'll notice that the article never actually claims there is a causal relationship between the ad and the share price dropping ("price d
by jsnell 4y ago
If you read carefully, you'll notice that the article never actually claims there is a causal relationship between the ad and the share price dropping ("price dropped because of X"), just a temporal one ("X happened, and some time after that the price dropped"). This is a trick the business media pulls all the time. The reality is that they don't know why the share price changed, but reporting just on the change isn't very interesting, so they'll pick some plausible reason and run with it.
- kevinpet 4y agoThe irony is this type of business writing is going to be among the first replaced by AI (it already is in local sports), because this sort of vacuous "mention some things that relate to each other" approximation to correctness is a standard that chat bots have already reached.
- whatshisface 4y agoI think a lot of those investment news articles already are automated.
- pixelfarmer 4y agoWhich is then picked up by other machines to derive what trades to do on the stock market. At what point do we decide to just shut all this energy wasting garbage down and use the machinery for more useful things?
- spacemadness 4y agoThis has already happened.