Thursday, December 5, 2024

Forget Press Release journalism. We've moved on to ChatGPT journalism.

And in contrast to A self-organizing emergent epistemic ecosystem, there is the legacy media, relying on their own false memories or poor researching skills to produce content that is false or misleading.  

The case is covered by Gillespie:
President Biden's pardon of his son is unprecedented.  Pierce is arguing that it is not unprecedented because George H.W. Bush also pardoned his own son.  Except that Bush did not pardon his son.   

We don't know yet why Pierce made this provably assertion.  Just a day or two ago there was another instance of someone defending Biden's pardon by citing two other instances of presidential pardons of sons.  In that case, it quickly emerged that the person making the claim had relied on ChatGPT which, along with some of the other AI platforms emerging, has a well-documented history of spurious "facts," or delusions as some are calling them.

Whether Pierce merely asked ChatGPT for a prior example and crafted the whole column on an unchecked ChatGPT assertion is not known.  But if Pierce is that sloppy, what does it say about lesser known journalists?

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