LLMs Assume Huge News Makes Front Pages, but Real Media Avoids It
QuintinPope5 · x · 2026-10-07
- Quoting Claude: the model infers from news history that an event of this magnitude would be front-page news.
- birchlse argues today's news media simply can't handle such events and displays "extreme avoidance behaviour."
- dioscuri frames the irony: we should be "the society that LLMs think we are" — models learn media norms from training data that actual media no longer follow.
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