The circular sourcing problem has been going on for a long time, but the modern internet has amplified it to levels of extreme absurdity. There isn’t a solution because humans are inherently lazy and fact checking requires effort. When the majority of your consumer base doesn’t care, then there’s no financial incentive to care on the part of the publishers. Maybe I’m being too nihilistic, but that’s how I see it these days.
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The circular sourcing problem has been going on for a long time, but the modern internet has amplified it to levels of extreme absurdity. There isn’t a solution because humans are inherently lazy and fact checking requires effort. When the majority of your consumer base doesn’t care, then there’s no financial incentive to care on the part of the publishers. Maybe I’m being too nihilistic, but that’s how I see it these days.
College students are required to cite everything and no plagiarism or bullshitting allowed, and everything must be spelled correctly.
as soon as they graduate, they go into journalism and all those rules fly out the window. apparently.
Yeah, this doesn’t even seem that difficult of a problem. Students can do it, so why can’t journalists?
No such thing as “hallucinations” in human-ridden content.
That’s called incompetence and negligence.
LSD: “Do I mean nothing to you?”
Haha understood! But I’m talking about news writing. Unless you’re implying that some reporters use LSD while writing? :)
Nah. The news itself is written by LSD. Cuts out the middle man of humans.
Everyone thinks they’re Hunter S. Thompson.