• @[email protected]
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    35 months ago

    I have seen this bot around few a few weeks, and while the theoretical concept is good, it can’t work in reality.

    Someone has to define what bias a news source has, and they has their own biases, this bot will only serve to confuse and misslead uninformed users.

    • EleventhHour
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      5 months ago

      if you don’t like it, feel free to block it

      also, it’s been 9 days, not “a few weeks”-- although the past 9 days sure as hell feels like a few weeks…

      • @[email protected]
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        85 months ago

        The past 9 days have been the longest month of my past 5 millennia that I’ve always been alive till the end of existence

        • @kat_angstrom
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          35 months ago

          Fascinating. Assuming that you have in fact been alive for +5000 years, what’s your secret to longevity?

            • Chef_Boyargee
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              35 months ago

              I must be doing it wrong. I can only see into the future after one of those.

              • ChihuahuaOfDoom
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                25 months ago

                That’s enema coffee, they are related in that you need one to make the other but not the same thing. In future, philosophers may ask us “what came first, the enema or the coffee?”

      • @[email protected]
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        65 months ago

        If you don’t like it, feel free to block it

        I will do so shortly, but wanted to raise the issue before since it might be spreading missinformation.

        also, it’s been 9 days, not “a few weeks”-- although the past 9 days sure as hell feels like a few weeks…

        Fair point, I’ll assume you are the person running the bot, so you probably knows more about it than me. I am and was tired when I wrote that, and didn’t doublecheck.

        I have raised the issue I wanted to, and I’ll block the bot in a few minutes, one word of advice would be to reword the comment to say something like “The current reputation of Generic_News seems to lean toward it being generic”, so the bot makes less absolute statements.

        Anyway, I am off to bed to sleep and possibly dream about terminating speaker wires.

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          5 months ago

          i don’t run the bot, nor do i have any connection to whomever does. i just don’t get this “i disagree, therefore i must be disinformation!” attitude, especially since i haven’t seen any compelling evidence to support such a claim, especially your specific accusation, “since it might be spreading missinformation.”

          just block it and move on

          • @[email protected]
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            25 months ago

            I never said that I disagreed with the bot, I said that it is pretending to be unbiased, which is impossible since a human created the list of definitions it uses.

            • @Zannsolo
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              05 months ago

              It lists ap news as left center, so clearly it’s accurate because reality has a liberal bias.

    • @[email protected]
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      35 months ago

      It works pretty good in reality though - their assessments are based on certain criteria and are generally fair.

      “Everyone is biased so stop reporting on bias” seems to be one of those civil-society-corroding memes that have gone around recently.

      • @[email protected]
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        15 months ago

        That is fair, I guess I take issue with how the bot makes it sound as if it reporting the unbiased truth, it would be better if it said something like:

        “Generic News is a digital newspaper reportibg on global events, it was founded in 2022 by Generic Trends, a marketing company. The stated goals of Generic News is to be unbiased and equal in their reporting, but the site has quickly gained a reputation of leaning toward libertarianism.”