French tech voices say AI now beats traditional press 10x, triggering media boycott
mitchdeg · x · 2026-10-11
French tech commentator Stephane Mallard says he has boycotted traditional media for years: coverage of topics he knows well is usually superficial or wrong, tech reporting is copy-pasted from TechCrunch and X. mitchdeg agrees that reading press coverage of a familiar field is 'horrifying 90% of the time', eroding trust in unfamiliar topics too — arguing any AI delivers 10x more relevant information than traditional journalism.
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