News website articles are often atrociously written.

Author: NedoftheHill (46779 Posts - Joined: Jun 30, 2011)

Posted at 12:42 am on Jun 2, 2026

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It's as if a slanted editor picks the topic, and maybe the headline, and then assigns the article to an AI, which spends 8 paragraphs on random background, and may or may not get to the main topic of the article.

WSJ still good.

FoxNews is to the point that it rarely benefits you to click on the article if it isn't one of the top 3 articles.

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Evil preaches tolerance until it is dominant, then it tries to silence good.

Replies to: “News website articles are often atrociously written.”

Curious: Do you use AI? How/Why? And open-ended, what has been your experience? [NT] - iairishcheeks - 11:49pm 5/31/26 (27) [View All]
- Every day, for both personal and business uses - Nigel Tufnel - 2:53am 6/1/26
  - I don't know anyone that is using Perplexity. - iairishcheeks - 2:58am 6/1/26
- Google insists it show me their AI, it saves me a click half the time - holybull101 - 2:34am 6/1/26
- Are you talking GPT/Gemini? All the time. Those are small parts of AI, though. - MAS - 1:43am 6/1/26
  - Indeed we're about 5.minures.away from college students gluing their hands to construction equipment - iairishcheeks - 2:46am 6/1/26
    - Those jobs of college-graduated drone reading spreadsheets are numbered. [NT] - MAS - 2:48am 6/1/26
      - Listen, we need to first stop AI. And then we need immigrants to do our spreadsheet work [NT] - iairishcheeks - 2:51am 6/1/26
- Some. Helped my daughter create her new resume with it and it worked great. - TampaIrish - 12:55am 6/1/26
- Claude and it is a game changer - 86domer - 12:24am 6/1/26
  - My concern is that we will stop thinking for ourselves. - conorlarkin - 12:52am 6/1/26
    - That concern is real - 86domer - 10:36am 6/1/26
      - Development becomes quality control, writing becomes editing. - iairishcheeks - 2:34pm 6/1/26
      - And what happens to mentoring? [NT] - conorlarkin - 11:06am 6/1/26
        
        According to my BIL who's a senior partner in a large SF law firm, it isn't just AI that's - TyroneIrish - 1:55pm 6/1/26
        
        Agree on both “working remotely” and AI. - conorlarkin - 2:12pm 6/1/26
    - Yeah, when I conjure up an image of "independent thinker," I think of conor. [NT] - MAS - 1:36am 6/1/26
      - You mean CNN, MSNBC, Wapo and NY Times are not AI? [NT] - TampaIrish - 1:57am 6/1/26
        
        News website articles are often atrociously written. - NedoftheHill - 12:42am 6/2/26
        
        All would be drastically improved if the robot was assigned the task of investigating the world - MAS - 2:24am 6/1/26
    - That's the "calculator" argument of old. - iairishcheeks - 1:29am 6/1/26
  - What type of work? - iairishcheeks - 12:33am 6/1/26
    - Me, business unit strategy for a boutique consultancy - 86domer - 12:41am 6/1/26
      - "Boutique Consultancy", I love that term and it also resonates with what I do. - iairishcheeks - 12:47am 6/1/26
        
        Thanks for the suggestion... - 86domer - 3:27pm 6/1/26
- Other than what pops up in a Google search, no. - conorlarkin - 12:10am 6/1/26
  - I would suggest you do a bit more with it. [LINK] - iairishcheeks - 12:29am 6/1/26
  - It will be interesting to see what areas the tools have greatest utility - 86domer - 12:25am 6/1/26

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