Incidentally I do think that Windows 12 situation is interesting as an example of how this stuff gets laundered into social media bait.
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Incidentally I do think that Windows 12 situation is interesting as an example of how this stuff gets laundered into social media bait. It was a multi-step process!
The original article in German on PC Welt wouldn't have trended since it was in German. Then it got roughly translated into English for PC World, and *that* version gave it the veneer of respectability despite being conjecture with absolutely no sourcing.
But it took the rewrite on an AI content farm to make it really start making the rounds, since *that* version was alarmist and specifically structured to get widely shared on social media. The link back to PC World in that article made it *sound* like it was based on an authoritative source, despite being a rewrite of a rewrite of an unsourced article.
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But it took the rewrite on an AI content farm to make it really start making the rounds, since *that* version was alarmist and specifically structured to get widely shared on social media. The link back to PC World in that article made it *sound* like it was based on an authoritative source, despite being a rewrite of a rewrite of an unsourced article.
Which btw I think leads into the other bit of advice: if you see a post on "Tech4gamers" or whatever, some site with a nothing name you've never heard of, maybe you shouldn't share that as evidence that something's really happening.
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Which btw I think leads into the other bit of advice: if you see a post on "Tech4gamers" or whatever, some site with a nothing name you've never heard of, maybe you shouldn't share that as evidence that something's really happening.
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Which btw I think leads into the other bit of advice: if you see a post on "Tech4gamers" or whatever, some site with a nothing name you've never heard of, maybe you shouldn't share that as evidence that something's really happening.
@misty In my opinion it's always good and proper to rant about Windows and Microslop, it doesn't matter if the sources are sus.
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@misty In my opinion it's always good and proper to rant about Windows and Microslop, it doesn't matter if the sources are sus.
@thomasfuchs @misty that's an annoying opinion. we don't need more noise, the world is enough of a catastrophe without making shit up.
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@misty In my opinion it's always good and proper to rant about Windows and Microslop, it doesn't matter if the sources are sus.
@thomasfuchs There's enough genuine reasons to criticize Microsoft and Windows; we don't need to be deliberately spreading misinformation to do it.
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Which btw I think leads into the other bit of advice: if you see a post on "Tech4gamers" or whatever, some site with a nothing name you've never heard of, maybe you shouldn't share that as evidence that something's really happening.
@misty Yeah it did seem suspicious to me that every time I saw it posted it was the same no-name website.
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@misty In my opinion it's always good and proper to rant about Windows and Microslop, it doesn't matter if the sources are sus.
@thomasfuchs @misty that discredits valid criticism in very short order and convinces no one in the long term. sources matter and facts matter and that's how we'll win because ultimately the truth is on our side.
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@thomasfuchs @misty that's an annoying opinion. we don't need more noise, the world is enough of a catastrophe without making shit up.
@joshg It's always nice when someone makes it obvious you should put them on a block list.
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Incidentally I do think that Windows 12 situation is interesting as an example of how this stuff gets laundered into social media bait. It was a multi-step process!
The original article in German on PC Welt wouldn't have trended since it was in German. Then it got roughly translated into English for PC World, and *that* version gave it the veneer of respectability despite being conjecture with absolutely no sourcing.
@misty seeing the post on mastodon yesterday had me kind of grilling the person who posted about another source, because, like anything, i like to know there are citations of some kind before boosting sensational headlines such as "windows 12 will be ai centered" (which, as likely as it is to happen, isn't something i could find evidence for)
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Incidentally I do think that Windows 12 situation is interesting as an example of how this stuff gets laundered into social media bait. It was a multi-step process!
The original article in German on PC Welt wouldn't have trended since it was in German. Then it got roughly translated into English for PC World, and *that* version gave it the veneer of respectability despite being conjecture with absolutely no sourcing.
@misty I just hope Windows 12 codename is "noon".
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Which btw I think leads into the other bit of advice: if you see a post on "Tech4gamers" or whatever, some site with a nothing name you've never heard of, maybe you shouldn't share that as evidence that something's really happening.
@misty yeah, I actually clicked through to the PC World article at one point and was like...this isn't what that article says...
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@misty yeah, I actually clicked through to the PC World article at one point and was like...this isn't what that article says...
@misty it framed it much more as conjecture than fact, and it was mostly a footnote in that article. The no-name site brought it front and center as basically all but confirmed.
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