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by edavison1 1mo ago
This is the second ACM article in the last few months that was clearly not written by a human. Funny because it's against their editorial policy... what is going on over there?
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by edavison1 5mo ago
Hook me up with the password for the alternate dimension Reddit you visit, it is so much smarter than mine.
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by edavison1 10mo ago
Beyond the cringe of posting AI slop that 'argues' about eroding social norms and declining trust due to AI there's also this: "The prestige and unmatched reputation of Communications of the ACM is built upon a 60-year c
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by edavison1 11mo ago
Ran into this the other day researching a brewery. Google AI summary referenced a glowing NYT profile of its beers. The linked article was not in fact about that brewery, but an entirely different one. Brewery I was researching has never be
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by edavison1 1y ago
I don't know if you're alluding to it and I just missed the sarcasm but their comment is at least partially computer generated. Last sentence is classic bot talk coded.
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by edavison1 1y ago
Getting dangerously close to inventing editors w that idea, no good we tried that already :)
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by edavison1 1y ago
Thanks, I think this answers my question, appreciate it
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by edavison1 1y ago
I'm sure they are, but I don't see how it relates to my question. Like, you wouldn't see anyone posting links to download a movie, or an app, that would otherwise require people to pay. So why is the practice so common to lin
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HN practice of circumventing paywall on news sites
4 points by edavison1 1y ago|5 comments
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by edavison1 1y ago
I get your view, read the essay years ago and we agree on the facts. I'm a journalist who gets 5-10 PR junk PR pitches a day. I don’t pitch stories from PR hacks--I pitch and write about the stuff I think is interesting and important.
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by edavison1 1y ago
The idea that arts criticism is somehow 'guerilla marketing' is such a deeply cynical, HN brain take. Of course the people who make things want to get the word out about what they're doing. But The New Yorker doesn't col
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by edavison1 2y ago
Yeah it's unfortunate that we're in this place culturally but seems like just using the phrase suggests a lack of engagement with it so I guess it makes sense in some wacky way.
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by edavison1 2y ago
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/05/nyregion/social-media-ins...
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by edavison1 2y ago
This has become such a talking point of mine when I'm inevitably forced to explain why LLMs can't come for my job (yet). People seem baffled by the idea that reporting collects novel information about the world which hasn't b
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by edavison1 2y ago
So is the argument here that the New Yorker can make more money from AI slop writing overseen by low-wage overseas workers? Isn't that obviously not the case? Anyway I think I've misunderstood the context in which we're using
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by edavison1 2y ago
>If you write regularly and you're not using AI, you simply cannot keep up with the competition. You're out. A very HN-centric view of the world. From my perch in journalism and publishing, elite writers absolutely loathe AI an
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UChicago's new geoengineering research initiative(thebulletin.org)
2 points by edavison1 2y ago|0 comments
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by edavison1 3y ago
Whitman was a full-time journalist for many years, both at the Brooklyn Daily Eagle and elsewhere.
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by edavison1 3y ago
How is exposing malfeasance and illegal corporate activity activism? I hate to retreat into platitudes here but good journalism shines a light in the dark, it comforts the afflicted and afflicts the comfortable, that’s kind of the name of t
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by edavison1 3y ago
Hey sorry, I thought we were talking journalism. Outbrain is an advertising/recommendation engine company right? Know zero about them but doesn’t look like they produce anything. Interesting you went with revenue per employee though be
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by edavison1 3y ago
You are commenting on an article written by a journalist. :)
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by edavison1 3y ago
Edit: made a typo. How do I quantify the value of reporting? As a writer and reporter, not a finance dude, I'm really not qualified to answer that. But it's interesting you say 'unless you are a brand' because I feel lik
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by edavison1 3y ago
I am hardly a luminary of my field but if you take a look at some of my features you’ll see they are drastically different from the idea you may have in your head. Lots of folks more accomplished than me who hit way harder. All the coverage
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by edavison1 3y ago
I keep hearing this sentiment on HN and IRL. As a journalist I think it misses the mark somewhat by failing to account for the value of reporting. While some news can be generated exclusively from scraping Reddit threads or whatever, most d
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by edavison1 3y ago
High Country News, Adventure Journal, Hakai magazine all carry the torch in some form or another.
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by edavison1 3y ago
The ‘content aggregator’ supported fantastic original reporting, increasing the share of knowledge in the world. Generally speaking, the free content you love then uses the original reporting from these kinds of outlets and delivers poorly
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by edavison1 3y ago
The judges are experts in their fields, FYI. For the games list this year we had Tyler Blevins, Nicole LaPointe Jameson, Eric Monacelli and Kiki Wolfkill, all heavy hitters.
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by edavison1 4y ago
This is absolute Seraghina slander. Maybe it's not Ops quality, but definitely better than Barboncino and one of the greats in the Roberta's-style lineage.
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by edavison1 4y ago
It's tempting to see it that way, but I read your comment and see an unfair comparison between a small city and the largest in the United States. The MTA is ugly (I love it) but let's not kid ourselves, they spend a shitload of mo
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by edavison1 5y ago
This has to be bait to some extent, but we're going to fight disinformation might as well start in the HN comments section. To that end, two brief things. Journalists doing investigative reporting have ZERO interaction with advertising

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