"#fakeAIslop is #profitable, and there are countless users doing the same thing. There’s absolutely nothing to stop them.
That is: the #Instagram platform doesn’t just enable this behavior, it rewards it. On Instagram & TikTok, #FutureRiderUS’s top hits are from #fakeLAfires. None are clearly labeled. #Disasterporn is just another kind of #content.
It doesn’t really matter what that content is: as long as it is ‘content that grabs attention,’ #bothsides can make money."
https://www.404media.co/inside-the-economy-of-ai-spammers-getting-rich-by-exploiting-disasters-and-misery/

#Facebook Pushes Its #Llama4 #AI Model to the Right, Wants to Present “Both Sides”

#Bias in artificial intelligence systems, or the fact that large language models, facial recognition, and #AI image generators can only remix and regurgitate the information in data those technologies are trained on, is a wellestablished fact that researchers and academics have been warning about since their inception.
#maga #right #bothsides #llm #facialrecognition

https://www.404media.co/facebook-pushes-its-llama-4-ai-model-to-the-right-wants-to-present-both-sides/

Cancel your NYTimes subscription.

Cancel your NYTimes subscription.

Cancel your NYTimes subscription.

#NYTimes #bothsides #fascistEnablers https://bsky.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:ig5djks6d6e6kyet32abh5zs/post/3llupvgc4gk2p

"Everyday" is a song by English musician #PhilCollins, released as the second single of his fifth studio album, #BothSides (1993). The single achieved success mostly in North America in early 1994. In 2004, it was included as the seventh track on Collins' compilation album #LoveSongsACompilationOldAndNew.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQpsXA36uq4

Hahaha, Mercury News (no link, fuck em) covered the Tesla Takedown protests today by asking for comments from…the president of Silicon Valley Association of Conservative Republicans, whose pearl of wisdom was that the “far-left” AOC will “destroy” the Democratic party. What the fuck.

What absolute, irrelevant, bothsides-ing horseshit. Fuuuuck you Mercury News, for forcing a protest story into the tired old “Democrats in Disarray” cliché. Glad I dropped my subscription years ago.

This gauge is machine-automated bothsides-ism, you realize that, right?

This was found at the bottom of the article that discusses how the US Military is purging images of Enola Gay (the aircraft) thanks to Anti-DEI sweeps. How this article is “unfair left leaning” outside of making Trumpers look bad is beyond me, but there you go.

EDIT: I was mistaken: the gauge as shown is in the “default” position before you make a selection. That…is TERRIBLE UX. The point stands though: this is automated both-sidesism, especially if the score is tied to each journalist’s compensation and promotion prospects. This is not a good idea.

#journalism #fairness #bothsides

Article: https://www.newsweek.com/military-remove-enola-gay-photos-dei-rules-2041029

@arrrg
LET IT BE KNOWN...

Mugsy's Rapsheet is a "No '#BothSides Do It' Zone."

HAHAHAHAHA

#lol #lmao #ai #bothsides #bullshit https://techhub.social/@Techmeme/114106961500515151

@thepoliticalcat And the #Media generally does not help. It #BothSides every issue. In general, #TheFourthEstateIsDead only #YellowJournalism exists. #ClickHunger drives what is written and presented. #Headlines are incomplete to get you to click just to see the completed thought. #Adjectives and #Adverbs are #Inflamatory #Scary or #Mystical and #Magical

In the latest episode of The Urbanist Agenda, guest Ellory Smith argues, "infrastructure is apolitical…because…it benefits everybody."

Unfortunately, this is projection, and the most insidious form of both-sides-ing: the unknowing kind.

Ellory is assuming that no one could possibly be so brazenly evil as to disagree with this goal, but they do. They really, really do.

In reality, the fact that infrastructure helps everyone is precisely what makes it directly political, because helping everyone is a Left-wing value. It is diametrically opposed to the Right-wing value of leveraging one's advantages over other people into successively greater advantages.

And for those of you who are new to this: yes, this does in fact mean that the Left side of the political spectrum is the only side that is even remotely morally defensible. If a supposed Right-winger seems to want to help everyone, then there are three possibilities. The most likely is that your definition of, "everyone," excludes the people they're screwing over. The second-most likely is that they're just lying. The last option is that their personal politics are incoherent, probably because they don't know what "Left" and "Right" actually mean.

(cc @notjustbikes)

Throwback Thursday - We don't always have to listen to both sides.

https://thedevilspanties.com/archives/15733

The New York Times Pitchbot with an excellent example of #BothSides journalism.

COLOR ME SHOCKED (really.)

You know those canned "Verify" news segments on your local CBS affiliate?

Last night they answered the question: "Will T****'s #tariffs cost you more money?"

Instead of a wishy-washy "maybe", they gave an actual YES (though they DID try to #BothSides it at the end.)

They failed to mention though that if #Import #prices go up, DOMESTIC prices will rise to match (just shy of the import price.)
https://www.khou.com/video/news/verify/money-verify/tariffs-proposed-by-donald-trump-would-raise-costs-for-americans/536-74b03b83-5e2b-4abc-b18b-f35eaa207641

I noted for the first time this morning that the pusllanimous media have started using "vaccine sceptic" instead of more accurate terms such as "science denier" or "malignant fool".