Paywalls, Bots, Spam, and Spyware is "Future of the Media" According to UK Press Gazette
Press Gazette jumping the shark? Press Gazette attacking the Press?
A few days ago:
Now:
10 days ago we criticised Press Gazette for endorsing or promoting LLM slop (misinformation/spam). As shown above, they've just done the same and they're starting to collect data on people while demonising people who block ads. Totally missing the point that ads are typically malicious - exceptions to this are hard to detect - and are blocked for good reasons...
As an associate put it, "managers want more LLM slop" and in the puff piece above we see the Press Gazette relaying - without noting the conflict of interest - their marketing/propaganda. How is that journalism? There's another new piece which leads us to simply assume that Press Gazette is OK with LLM slop and views that as "Future of the Media" rather than a peril to be tackled, eliminated. â–ˆ