What "the News" Looks Like in 2025

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Aug 01, 2025

Remember what we said an hour ago about "Microsoft says" articles? That's not a problem that's limited to Microsoft. The "says" (or "sez") phenomenon extends to Microsoft's Scam Altman and Kapo-berg, the booster of the Convicted Felon in the White House:

Imagine training your LLM (slop machine) on "data sets" like these. Garbage in, garbage out, repeat with outputs as inputs. █

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