• @LePoisson@lemmy.world
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    654 days ago

    I guess the NYT no longer has an editor on staff? Who the fuck let that go to print, also who writes something like that into an article - that little paragraph where the NYT claims that “industry experts” said Chinese girls are better at assembling phones reads like cringe AI slop.

    I feel like literally one person proofreading that should have been enough for them to go, “maybe don’t print the stupid racist thing about small fingers.”

    • @givesomefucks@lemmy.world
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      144 days ago

      Authors name is “Tripp” and if he’s a real person he 100% used AI to write it.

      I’m guessing his grandfather was/is loaded and connected. I’ve never met a man in my life who goes by “Tripp” and isn’t an insufferable douche coasting off generational wealth.

      The crazy part is he just “wrote” a book about Apple, and there’s a good chance Apple execs he talked to really said that stupid racist thing.

      • thanks AV
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        14 days ago

        He goes by tripp because, according to his personal image consultant, “Leopold reitbarth the third” didn’t test well with under 30s in their focus groups

    • @db2@lemmy.world
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      114 days ago

      If it’s children doing it then it’s not racist anymore. – NYT, probably

    • flandish
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      64 days ago

      capitalist mutual masturbation and manufactured cognitive dissonance / distraction so they don’t have to actually change anything and effect profit potential. while they wait for daddy dictator trump to open their proposals in the form of a cotton sack with a dollar sign on the side.

    • @misteloct@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      44 days ago

      They will fire the editor and writer (who are probably overworked and forced to use AI slop to meet deadlines), and the cycle begins anew.