Couldn’t happen to a better publication.
I’m floored, only in this article I learned that they are owned by Axel Springer, basically the most despicable media company in Germany. I agree, fuck them.
I actually didn’t know that either, but I’m not surprised. I dislike them because they’re a mouth piece for management class propaganda. They’ve been massively pushing things like “Back to The Office” (boosting studies that say it’s better and “debunking” studies that say it’s a step backwards). They also regularly spew out garbage like “Capitalism has solutions for Global Warming” and “Universal Basic Income will harm growing economies.”
I also know some asshole boss and asshole VC guy types who read all that crap and eat it up with a spoon, so it’s really not harmless. Fuck Business Insider.
I can imagine that all too well, Springer is infamous in Germany - they publish the, unfortunately, best-selling tabloid newspaper in Europe, BILD, which was at one time summed up perfectly by a German punk band as “fear, hate, tits and the weather report”, and leads every statistic in getting reprimanded for false and unethical reporting and harassing people to obtain scandalous stories. They have been at it for generations by now, too. To quote Wikipedia, which summed it up better than I could:
[it] was blamed by some for the climate that contributed to the assassination attempt on activist Rudi Dutschke in 1968—a popular catchphrase in left-wing circles sympathetic to student radicalism was “Bild hat mitgeschossen!” (“Bild shot at him too!”).
For their upper class readers, they have “Die Welt”, which is basically factual and respected, but heavily slanted in favour of conservatism, basically the same you describe in your comment.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
The situation came to light in a letter penned by union members at Business Insider’s Insider Union that sought details on the agreement signed late last year between its parent company Axel Springer and OpenAI, according to Nieman Lab, which acquired the document.
In the missive, the union showed damning evidence that OpenAI isn’t yet honoring its end of the contract, which requires the tech company to attribute Axel Springer publications on articles and link to them as well, while OpenAI gets to mine Business Insider and sister publications such as Politico to train its large language models.
In examples, union members prompted ChatGPT to search for articles on sexual misconduct allegations against Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy and tech billionaire Elon Musk fathering twins with a Neuralink executive, both of which were Business Insider exclusives — but ChatGPT spat out links to other media outlets.
“We are… deeply worried that despite this partnership, OpenAI may be downplaying rather than elevating our works,” reads the Insider Union letter.
“Repeated efforts by unit members have been unable to prompt ChatGPT to link directly to our scoops, even when explicitly instructed to do so.”
Remember the infamous pivot to video that Facebook instigated, which threw so many news outlets into a tailspin and saw so many reporters out of work?
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Why does Sam Altmann always look like he’s terrified something is about to kill him.
