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Culture War Roundup for the week of November 13, 2023

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So, I applaud you for finding the original source and figuring out what was going on, but...

This is basically a single bulletpoint at the very bottom of a corporate blog post written by the CEO of a tutoring agency.

I don't strongly expect anything written by a CEO on their corporate blog to be factually accurate, that's really not the point of the medium.

In this case it's plausibly just that the CEO is not a scientist and can't read data and made a mistake, or maybe was sinisterly trying to make white reading comprehension look low so white parents buy their product or investors think they have a larger market or something.

But, basically: yeah, the internet is full of crap and misinformation everywhere you look, most often through incompetence rather than malice. It would be a big deal if a politician or major news outlet repeated the wrong stat, but the actual sources you're linking are performing at about the level of competence I expect from them (little to none).

Also, on the 'how did this happen' question: I'm the guy who sits in on meetings with vendors trying to sell my company 'AI workflow solutions' that do things like write automated summaries (yes, even with graphs and charts!) of papers/legislation/articles/pdfs/powerpoints/etc that you feed into them, so that you can send executive summaries to your managers or post them online as marketing.

I'm not saying I can tell that either of these sources were created by/with the help of AI, but AI products are being sold to companies that do similar-looking things.

I'm the guy who sits in on meetings with vendors trying to sell my company 'AI workflow solutions' that do things like write automated summaries (yes, even with graphs and charts!) of papers/legislation/articles/pdfs/powerpoints/etc that you feed into them, so that you can send executive summaries to your managers or post them online as marketing.

I wonder how long until we have AI products that is going to evaluate these AI marketing articles, and then we just have an entire system of AI products just rating each other with no humans eyes ever reading the produced content.

I'm really curious how that automated graphs/charts would work, wouldn't you need source data still? Based on how you describe it sounds like the tool should automatically generate charts/graphs if you plug in a pdf file, for example, but I can't see how it can generate anything useful unless you already have the graphs/charts created and the tool is just picking out the relevant one or at the very least have source data you can provide.

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