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My original, editorialized title: Ars Technica Sells Out


Linking to this because I know people here read Ars Technica, and I totally didn't become a subscriber three days before this was announced. Nope. No sir.

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[–] empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 59 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (7 children)

The main problem now is that Ars Technica and all other Conde Nast publications, with it now having a vested interest in openAI (they're getting paid by them), can no longer be reliably trusted to report on any AI or AI-adjacent topic whatsoever. And every user comment and content is now owned by openAI.

[–] fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 2 points 3 months ago (3 children)

I bet MFCBot would work super well if it was updated to report on if the publication's owners had a vested interest in the topic.

[–] empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Oh it would. It would require the MFC site itself to actually collect and collate data on site's parent company investment portfolios and that's a pretty massive ask from what sounds like a very tiny team.

[–] TexMexBazooka@lemm.ee 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I wonder if it could somehow pull that data from somewhere like ground news somehow

[–] empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 months ago

It might be able to? Ground has a browser extension that likely indicates they have some kind of external API access, it probably could be integrated with a little bit of effort.

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