"CEO Said A Thing!" Journalism

"CEO said a thing!" journalism involves parroting the claims of a business leader or executive with absolutely no context, correction, or challenge whatsoever, no matter how elaborate the delusion.

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@peter Agree on that. CEOs are often treated as experts in the field, even though they are not. Why writing about what Altman thinks about AI and not asking an AI scientist? Why asking Musk about brain interfaces and not somebody who works in this field? Not only do CEOs often lack deeper knowledge, they also have clear financial interests. They very likely won't say the truth, but only what benefits them. It's like writing an article and citing an tv advertisement clip as source
@kaidu @peter I prefer asking an expert in a closely related field, close eniugh for a decent judgement but far enough to not need funding for the thing they are commenting on.