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I'm doing it again - this is another lazy repackaged piece of "journalism". It's a bunch of links to other publications which did the actual heavy lifting, with
by icegreentea2 3y ago
I'm doing it again - this is another lazy repackaged piece of "journalism". It's a bunch of links to other publications which did the actual heavy lifting, with some limp commentary thrown in. The "Bloomberg reported" link doesn't even go to the Bloomberg story (it goes to the Guardian... because its actually from the Guardian). The "according to Greenpeace" bit also straight up quotes it wrong (Yahoo says Greenpeace says yearly ghost flights cause pollution equivalent to 1.4 million cars, the Greenpeace headline says yearly ghost flights _in the EU_ cause pollution equivalent to 1.4 million cars).
It's also funny because by fusing together a bunch of semi-unrelated stories, you end up bizarre combinations. The majority of the article isn't about airlines flying empty flights to keep their slots, it's about Qatar straight up avoiding taking up 'slots' (of sorts), but the call to action is about slot preserving ghost flights.
Finally, it's a completely limp call to action, because the obvious solution (increase carbon taxes) is almost certainly unpalatable to the typical target audience of this article.
- esotericimpl 3y ago[dead]
- hluska 3y agoWould you mind humouring me for a moment? I have a strong suspicion (that I can’t prove) that this article was created by a primitive LLM. I believe that because: 1.) The article presents ‘facts’ that are completely wrong with complete confidence. This alone really seriously smells like an LLM. 2.) Those ‘facts’ are based off of misread quotes from the source pubs. The misreading seems to relate back to words being removed entirely from analysis or else assigned the wrong definition. I see few signs of human intelligence. What do you think? And for fun, assume the LLM is an adversary. How do we beat it?
- gmerc 3y agoIf by primitive LLM you mean humans, you’d be correct. It’s low paid jobs to create content to decorate the ads surface and been a staple of the publishing industry for years, no LLM required. No doubt these jobs will give way for LLMs down the road and even as we speak of course
- onetokeoverthe 3y ago[dead]
- hluska 3y agoI don’t know - I used to publish and maintain my interest in the publishing industry. This doesn’t sound anything like a human staffed content farm - they have their own works.
- dang 3y agoYes, https://news.yahoo.com/major-airline-faces-backlash-using-220000546.html https://news.yahoo.com/major-airline-faces-backlash-using-22... was quite a crap article. I've changed the URL above to the guardian.com report it points to. Submitters: "Please submit the original source. If a post reports on something found on another site, submit the latter." - https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- pdx_flyer 3y agoAll while Qantas exploits their near monopoly over the market.
- throwaway2037 3y agoThank you for this post. Why isn't there a down vote button on articles?
- otterley 3y agoYou can flag them and it'll get the mods' attention.
- deleted 3y ago[deleted]