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[–] seathru@quokk.au 14 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Screaming “fake news” is unhelpful.

Vetting sources absolutely is helpful.

[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

It's clear they didn't actually vet the source or read what mediabiasfactcheck said then, because at no point did they make "fake news." So the likelihood of this being AI is near zero.

Taking the top line that some group made and not actually looking at the details is not vetting a source, it's taking a quick glance as gospel. It matters that they don't make fake news because it makes this video likely real.

But I mean you do you if you just take a quick glance as gospel and don't actually, you know, fucking read anything yourself.

[–] seathru@quokk.au 3 points 1 day ago (2 children)

You keep putting "fake news" in quotations like it's something they said.

Oh so claiming it's quite possibly AI isn't directly making a claim that it's most likely fake? Interesting.

[–] lennybird@lemmy.world -2 points 1 day ago

It's not even something I said lol. They're clueless.

[–] lennybird@lemmy.world -4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You're not inspiring confidence in people here when purporting an obvious strawman fallacy. Please quote where I said they're "fake news" as you put in quotes no less.

Second, one demonstrates an unfortunately low level of comprehension skills, given I stated, "Don’t trust this to be anything more than AI" -- which suggests by comparative logic that there are possibly other things I trust equal to or lower than AI.

[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

"Don't trust this to be any more than AI" directly implies that it must be fake.