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> purposefully passive to remove culpability from the entity (Amazon) that is making the active choice to terminate these people's jobs. Opening line in the ar
by andsoitis 1y ago
> purposefully passive to remove culpability from the entity (Amazon) that is making the active choice to terminate these people's jobs.
Opening line in the article: "Amazon has confirmed it plans to cut thousands of jobs, saying it needs to be "organised more leanly" to seize the opportunity provided by artificial intelligence (AI)."
And the statement from Amazon uses the phrase "we are reducing..."
- rco8786 1y agoYes we’re discussing the headline
- andsoitis 1y ago> Yes we’re discussing the headline Ah I see, your beef is with the BBC, not Amazon.
- johnnyanmac 1y agoIt can be both. In this case it is. BBC for the sanewhashing of insanity, and Amazon for continuing to inflate this giant AI bubble.
- ruszki 1y agoThere is enough people who don’t read articles just headlines whose world view can be changed with this. In Hungary, where I’m originally from, one of my friends sent me an article, which was about immigration in 2015, because she thought that the local district government wanted to move “migrants” (dog whistle for non white people over there) into her district. The headline said that, the body said the exact opposite… and it worked. Also there are a ton of comments here, on Reddit, and really everywhere, that makes it quite obvious that a lot of people don’t read just headlines.
- John23832 1y agoRight and that is different that passive wording of "job loss" used above?