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Spin, like you illustrate in your comment, has connotations of distorting the truth. Simply denying the allegations isn't really spinning anything; it's just d
by bunderbunder 1y ago
Spin, like you illustrate in your comment, has connotations of distorting the truth.
Simply denying the allegations isn't really spinning anything; it's just denying the allegations. And The thing I dislike about characterizing something like this as spin is that it defangs the term by removing all those connotations and instead turning it into just a buzzwordy way of saying, "I disagree with what this person said."
- bee_rider 1y agoThey didn’t just deny the allegations. They called the case baseless. The case is clearly not baseless, in the sense that there’s at least enough of a basis that the court didn’t vacate the order to preserve the chats. It seems to me that the discussion of whether or not it is spin has turned into a discussion of which party people basically agree with. My personal opinion is that OpenAI will probably win, or at least get away with a pretty minor fine or something like that. However, the communications coming from both parties in the case should be assumed to be corporate spin until proven otherwise. And, calling an unfinished case baseless is, at least, a bit presumptuous!
- bunderbunder 1y agoThat's legalese. You can't interpret legal jargon using vernacular definitions of the terms.
- bee_rider 1y agoThe source is a message intended for mass consumption, so it should not be interpreted in legalese.
- bunderbunder 1y agoHow you want the law to work, and how the law works, are not necessarily the same thing.