News outlet sensationalizes story to attract views to its website.....I can't think of one example of this ever happening in the history pf the planet
p.s. I dropped this: */s* On Wed., Jul. 24, 2019, 5:32 p.m. stevea, <stevea...@softworkers.com> wrote: > An article such as that proposed by John would almost be a master's thesis > if done correctly and would likely put the typical BBC reader to sleep. > Such an article would suffer from the constraints of concision typical in > mainstream Western media, which means simply the topics would not receive > the depth they deserve. Such an article would need to address the history > of OSM, the history of AI in OSM and its failures and successes (some of > both, plenty of the former) and any attempt to "take the temperature" of > "we in OSM" who feel one way or another about AI as a process for data > entry would be almost horrifically complex in its vast spectrum of > opinions. This is not something, I suspect, editors at the BBC would find > makes for interesting reading. Unfortunately, what appears to be a > sensationalistic, poorly researched, short, punchy story that sounds like > "Facebook to the rescue of mapping in developing countries with AI!" is > something an editor will (and did, apparently) green light. > > I do agree that the article seems quite glib in its treatment of the > topic: though to me it makes it sound like Facebook has magic bullets that > can and will solve the challenges of the hard work of mapping, when we > (humans in OSM) who do map know better (while AI is powerful and can help > solve certain problems, it most certainly isn't a magic bullet). I'd call > the article an unfortunate example in the typical concision found in major > news outlets which sensationalizes what is a relatively minor improvement > by a company (Facebook) whose mere mention in an article is almost > guaranteed to generate readership / eyeballs. It is sad to see this > obvious seduction and that many fall for it, but fortunately, a wise person > once reminded us "you can't fool all of the people all of the time." > > SteveA > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk >
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