They’re in rapid technological development cycles that’s reminiscent of the late 20th century USA. Often producing hilariously odd or bad gadgets, which people take as evidence that China sucks. As it’s said when it’s anything not-China, “you have to crack a few eggs to make an omelet”.

Nice job, but are you Rosenzweig level? Because booting the kernel on iPhones has been done before. Getting a usable software stack is a whole other territory.

Tech evangelists rely heavily on logical fallacies. False equivalence is one of the main ones. “A thing happened before therefore this tech is nothing to worry about”. They’re redirecting the argument to bait people to try to prove why calculators are bad. But of course the past already happened and nobody is going prove otherwise.

They’ll ignore the rules like they always do for the violent right.

It’s more common than you think probably. I clocked Quartz spamming reddit with garbage articles sometime in the mid-2010s. Who and what are these sites even. What are their credentials. Why did they suddenly spring up out of nowhere???

It didn’t require modern AI like LLMs. Simpler algorithms of copying articles and paraphrasing them have existed for a very long time.

Maybe over a decade ago web development reached a point when anyone could relatively easily churn out professional looking site designs. Most of the news sites we’ve been fed has been garbage such as you’ve described.

One source that nobody seems to ever notice is company press release pages. Boring reports that nobody otherwise cares about gets turned into clickbait headlines.

Business Company posts a routine boring press release on their website: “Business Stuff happened at the business factory. Business as usual.”

What you see generated for these garbage news sites: “Breaking News. Business Company announces MASSIVE BREAKTHROUGH in Business Stuff. Rival business factories on suicide watch?”

You don’t need LLMs or AI in general. This is basic site scraping.

“Please don’t tell anyone how I live.”