• vaguerant@fedia.io
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      8 days ago

      Perhaps I wasn’t clear. The journalists and editorial staff at the Chicago Sun-Times aren’t media enterprises, they are human persons. I’m not asking you to imagine yourself as a corporation, I’m asking you to imagine that you are a person. If you were a person and your boss did something bad without your knowledge or consent, are you, a person, to blame for your boss’ actions?

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        7 days ago

        No, I understand what you mean and to that point yes you’re right I shouldn’t hold the employees of the Chicago Sun-Times accountable for using AI slop in their paper.

        But that’s just not the way my - or anyone’s - mind processes it. “The Chicago Sun-Times” for all intents and purposes is a monolith which produces a newspaper. “They” made a very unfortunate decision to allow AI content in that paper. It has damaged their reputation.

        So next time I see “Chicago Sun-Times” I won’t be thinking about the person who does the layouts or the regional sales person or any of that, I’ll be thinking “oh yeah, they got bitten hard by a stupid decision to allow AI slop in their paper”.