More Publishers Have Turned From Slop Boosters Into Slop Sceptics and Critics
Dark times ahead for boosters of a Ponzi scheme [1-3]
Futurism has established itself - more so in the past year or so - as a loud critic of slop. The majority of its articles are about how much slop sucks. Like "Pivot to AI", it correctly spots the BS, calls out the BS, and benefits from debunking the BS (such as calling mass layoffs "AI" based on a totally fictitious and self-serving narrative).
Lately we've noticed Press Gazette pretty much defecting as well. From cautious booster of slop, the site has turned into habitual critic, perhaps recognising that British publishers (and most publishers outside the UK as well) strongly dislike slop and abhor what GAFAM does with slop - Google in particular.
We commend publishers that decided to quit assuming slop is an innovation. "AI" has become little but an excuse for plagiarism and large-scale propaganda operations, typically sold as "intelligence" in spite of lacking any.
It's also a catch-all buzzword (or buzzphrase) for just about 90% of anything that happens in the "tech scheme" or "tech scene".
All publishers will eventually realise it was all along a bubble, a legal time bomb, and a passing fad.
Meanwhile, publishers like The Register MS look to profit from inflating this bubble - a bubble that is almost impossible to inflate anymore.
The Register MS et al will eventually be left with no credibility at all. There's a "hidden cost" when one participates (for profit) in "pump and dump" schemes. █
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