Also did you know that the reason NYT can sue openAI with the expectation of success is that the AI cites its sources about as well as James Somerton.
It regurgitates long sections of paywalled NYT articles verbatim, and then cites it wrong, if at all. It's not just a matter of stealing traffic and clicks etc, but also illegal redistribution and damaging the NYT's brand regarding journalistic integrity by misquoting or citing incorrectly.
OpenAI cannot claim fair use under these circumstances lmao.
When the “liberal elite” New York Times posts a fucking swastika themed crossword on the first night of Chanukah, you really feel the antisemitism coming in from all sides
Illustration for the New York Times Kids, for their book review 'An Embarrassment of Witches', discussing how children gravitate towards stories of witches. As always, I'm very happy to draw some witches.
I am writing to encourage you to cancel your subscription to the New York Times, in light of their consistently aggressively biased, irresponsible, and shoddy reporting on trans issues and stacking of their op-ed section with transphobic voices.
This is not a new problem, but it's one that the NYT has compounded and doubled down on over the last few years. The open letter published yesterday is a remarkably civil overview of the issues with their reporting and the material harm that reporting has done; it doesn't even touch on the op-ed stuff, which is absolutely vile. The NYT's official response was to dismiss the signatories--including hundreds of NYT contributors and thousands of readers and other media professionals (including me)--as "activists" working at odds with the NYT's nominal goal of journalistic integrity. The next day--today--they headlined their op-ed section with a defense of J.K. Rowling, who has done more to misinform and stoke the fires of transphobia--in both practice and official policy--than any other public figure, comparing her "persecution"--being correctly identified as transphobic--to that experienced by Salman Rushdie, and repeatedly misgendering trans men as women.
As a former journalist, I consider the NYT's reporting on trans issues unconscionable; as a trans person, I find it incredibly scary. NYT articles--ones misreported to an extent that has triggered open criticism from major medical organizations--have been used to justify some of the most aggressive anti-trans legislation this and last season. That the "paper of record" has decided to advocate for our dehumanization puts the dignity and lives of people like me in active jeopardy, and regardless the quality of their other work, I don't think there's a conscionable way to continue to support them.
Yours,
Jay Edidin
one thing about reading Killing Hope is that for pretty much every chapter, every single imperialist intervention, you will come to the part where the New York Times acts as the mouthpiece of capital, laundering US state department and CIA lies, covering for us/british/french/etc. colonial and imperialist ventures, pushing atrocity propaganda, demonizing anti-colonial resistance, smearing communists, rallying support for counterrevolutionaries, whitewashing imperialist-backed fascist coups, cheerleading blockades and sanctions, every fucking time, there is the precious Gray Lady wagging its finger at oppressed peoples for daring to remove the boot from their necks