AI Impacts press release headline itself was misleading, not just journalists
jessi_cata · x · 2026-10-11
In a debate with @ohabryka, jessicata argues that AI Impacts can't be defended on the grounds that journalists exaggerated: the wrong claim appears in the headline of the press release itself, and multiple news articles replicate that headline claim while dropping the original caveat.
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