• AndrewZabar@lemmy.worldOP
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    3 months ago

    I don’t understand. The whole article seems to be about a crashed ship that the army and police are there etc.; the way it’s written is as if it’s an event independent of the festival and so that’s what made me wonder why are they writing it like that. It’s bad form unless they’re actually claiming it is real.

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      3 months ago

      I’m not familiar with Goodwood Revival and didn’t find much else about this particular UFO display. I guess they wrote this with assumption of knowledge of the event and perhaps its unusual performances. While I could piece together that it was a themed part of the event, it definitely benefits from context and background.

      It’s not the first time I’ve seen articles on fake crashes like this. I remember seeing a school and some other groups/locations with “crashes” that made the rounds with articles written from the perspective of being real. The events themselves seem to embrace the idea well, but the reporting could use some work. The topic of UAP has grown in the news in recent years and is clearly having a lot of cultural impact.

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        3 months ago

        The big problem that’s only begun to show its face is fucking AI and spiders. Just pure plagiarism of websites by the millions. I have come across whole sites that have countless articles all of which are just churned out AI sewage. One particular subject matter I happen to have expertise in I’ve found search results where literally thousands of websites have varying versions of the same information and it’s all fucking false. Shit begets more shit, it gets perpetuated and the AI feeds off its own mass-produced excrement.

        Thus we are going to see the whole concept of “googling” something for quick answers become entirely useless, and we will go search specific sites we know we trust, for the answers within their purview.

        We’ve entered the age the hierarchy has been pining for: where the internet has nothing left of any merit and it’s all money-making shit being spewed out over everything.