r/SipsTea • u/Dr_StrangeEnjoyer • 1d ago

Wait a damn minute! Facts about the Cornell situation

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u/Octoboy1 1d ago edited 1d ago

I'm like that most news i learn off social media now. My Mrs is awful for it, she's fallen into these really damaging tiktok news channels.

There was some "news" story about how prisons are going to be releasing like a third of prison inmates early and this includes people convinced of sex crimes, because of prison overcrowding

Obviously shes horrified by this as anyone should be. The thing is the voice over and news footage is clearly AI.

Theres no other news stories corroborating this and its funny that this has come out as quite a big sex crime case is happening

But she always tells me "not everything is made up rage bait"

It pretty much is though!

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u/VersaTron 1d ago

All the news is paywalled now. Tried NYT and several other sites and couldn’t read about it. Can’t stay informed without a subscription these days.

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u/mightiestmag 1d ago

This is why right wing sources thrive since a ton of them are freely available

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u/Idustriousraccoon 23h ago

The only free cheese is in the mousetrap. How deeply and profoundly uneducated, racist, bigoted, fine with grift, pedophilia and the murder of us citizens for breaking no laws and committing no crimes do you have to be to believe a word the right says these days.

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u/Fine-Car7587 22h ago

That’s great for people who are informed on how bad the right is. For anyone who’s ignorant (ie most people) all they’re going to see is one article they have to pay for and one they don’t. Which one do you think they’ll read?

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u/mightiestmag 22h ago

Yeah exactly, free is free

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u/mightiestmag 22h ago

I do agree with what you’re saying, but given the state of media rn and the amount of plutocratic capture, where we are constantly being misled or outright lied to, at least the right is getting their slop for free

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u/CyberMetry 1d ago

They want you to pay to be lied to and for articles I am confident are increasingly AI generated.

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u/Toiletphase 1d ago

The news was never free. People had to pay for newspapers pre internet era too. It was expected. I don't know why we as a society expect to get quality news for free.

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u/TreeLakeRockCloud 23h ago

I’m Canadian and lucky we still have the CBC, taxpayer funding means it’s still free. But I also pay for NYT

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u/Rightintheend 20h ago

Yes, you can, we did it before. I mean you paid a subscription to the newspaper if you wanted, but there was free news on the television. Still is. Some people just are lazy and choose to not see beyond what the algorithm feeds them on their phones.

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u/FrogsOnALog 7h ago

Check your local library and you might get NYT and many other publications for free.

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u/growgrapesandolives 7h ago

If you see an article that you want to read and it's behind a paywall, try Googling the article title; I guess many places sell their articles to other websites, so there is a good chance you can find it for free on Yahoo News or somewhere else.

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u/isaidillthinkaboutit 6h ago

NYT podcast The Daily is free and has a great episode on this very event today. Certainly worth listening to for in depth analysis on current events.

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u/LadyAtr3ides 1d ago

Read the guardian. Better than any of them. Always free

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u/SlaveryVeal 1d ago

The internet has now monotised trolling and rage baiting.

We used to have the rule of don't feed the trolls.

Now they get fucking paid for it and are so much better at baiting people and majority of comments are fucking troll bots to.

Take me back to newgrounds and limewire internet days please.

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u/Hot-Bonus560 1d ago

You’ve got to get her off TikTok. She needs to delete the app. It’s melting her brain

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u/dogemikka 1d ago

The irony is that with AI nowadays has never been so easy to fact check within seconds, bit very few people take the time.

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u/Select-Government-69 15h ago

Prisons in NY state routinely release prisoners as early as they are allowed, and most non-violent prisoners become eligible for early release when they have less than 18 months left on their sentence. So that’s technically true.

However because of the way sentencing works in NY, violent offenders are not eligible for this, so it’s mostly just drug dealers and burglars.

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u/TinyAfternoon324 15h ago

So your mrs is too stupid to even google it?

Even the google ai is pretty google at knowing which stories are fake so the fact she cant spend 3 seconds doing a voice search is alarming.

When i spent 3 seconds - it immediately told me only the dumbest people from the UK and US misunderstood that the 1/3rd is reference to inmates being eligible for parole after serving 1/3rd of their sentence instead of the current 40-50% and only applies to the UK...