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timerol ◴[] No.44378334[source]
> Is It Accurate?

> I don’t know—I didn’t watch it, lol. That was the whole point. And if that answer makes you uncomfortable, buckle-up for this future we're hurtling toward. Boy, howdy.

This is a great bit of work, and the author accurately summarizes my discomfort

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raincole ◴[] No.44384572[source]
A lot of people read newspaper.

Newspaper is essentially just an inaccurate summary of what really happened. So I don't find this realization that uncomfortable.

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1. dmix ◴[] No.44388431[source]
That's why I find the idea of training breaking news on Reddit or Twitter funny, wild exaggerations and targeted spin is the sort of stuff that does best on those sites and generates the most comments, 50% of the output would be lies.