I cannot emphasize enough that the attempts to anthropomorphize an algorithm is a fundamental act of journalistic malpractice and an intentional act to shield the people responsible for this. It's fucking shameful.

January 02, 2026 - 17:03 UTC

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pretty much every single piece of tech journalism is pr, either consciously or unconsciously, bc they're reporting from inside the tech fantasy world and not from the outside
it's maddening really
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Fun fact: the actual article uses a technically-correct formulation: "Musk’s Grok AI bot SAYS it’s fixing safeguards..." but that somehow got lost in conversion to clickbait mode. (But of course that claim is also irrelevant and dumb and a failure of journalistic ethics, even if technically true.)
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I really appreciate that this bs is setting the bar so damn low for journalism in the new year. We really are fucked arent we?
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