[HN Gopher] 'Immediate red flags': questions raised over 'expert...
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       'Immediate red flags': questions raised over 'expert' much quoted
       in UK press
        
       Author : mellosouls
       Score  : 14 points
       Date   : 2025-04-19 16:00 UTC (2 days ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (www.theguardian.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (www.theguardian.com)
        
       | duxup wrote:
       | Very interesting article. This 'person' has a commercial sex
       | related website and some medium posts but no presence otherwise.
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       | Apparently reporters found her through some services that connect
       | experts with reporters and I'm guessing the reporters trusted
       | that service.
        
       | fallinghawks wrote:
       | As the old saw goes, on the internet nobody knows you're a dog.
        
       | averageRoyalty wrote:
       | > Charlie Beckett, the leader of the journalism and AI project at
       | the London School of Economics, said: "This is about long-running
       | pressures on journalists to be quicker. This is not the AI itself
       | that's at fault here. This is unscrupulous people, it seems. It
       | is a wake-up call to all of us, frankly."
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       | Agreed Charlie, but not the way you meant it. The unscrupulous
       | bunch here is lazy journos using UberEats for quotes rather than
       | actually finding and speaking to an expert.
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       | I wouldn't be surprised to find them using third parties to write
       | their articles or find subject ideas too.
        
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