Of course that’s angle they decide to open the article from. That they feel the need to frame these tools using the most grandiose terms bothers me. How does it make you feel?
I was once interviewed by my country's biggest paper about "strava art" I make, aka biking/running with a gps logger in order to create some kind of figure on the map.
It was edited into this video about people drawing dicks on maps using this technique. Aka the intro was loads of penises on maps, and then "someone that enjoys making this kind of art is Mats here" and then the video interview started. When they ask why I "make this kind of art" I answered because it's nice for the motivation and makes me run longer routes. They then overlaid a growing "longer" text as a dick joke.
Now, the theme was anyways a silly one, so I don't mind. But made me realize how easy it is to edit stuff to suit what they want to show, no matter the context.
* I do admit I have also ran a penis, so it's not entirely incorrect. But all questions in the interview was in a general context and didn't know this was gonna be the angle.
I’ve had a very similar experience. I was only on TV once. Right before Christmas, ~20 years ago, I was running some errands downtown and ran into a camera crew doing a puff piece about holiday preparations.
They asked me what was most important to me about the holidays, and I said that I really don’t care about the presents, but I love the atmosphere, the music, and spending time with my loved ones.
A couple days later the segment was aired, and it went something like this:
>Reporter: “Our crew asked people on the street what they like most about the holidays.”
It was a joke, and I was laughing when I told the reporter, but it's not obvious to me if it comes across as a joke the way it was reported.
But then it's also one of those jokes which has a tiny element of truth to it.
So I think I'm OK with how it comes across. Having that joke played straight in MIT Technology Review made me smile.
Importantly (to me) it's not misleading: I genuinely do believe that, given a post-apocalyptic scenario following a societal collapse, Mistral Small 3.2 on a solar-powered laptop would be a genuinely useful thing to have.
It was edited into this video about people drawing dicks on maps using this technique. Aka the intro was loads of penises on maps, and then "someone that enjoys making this kind of art is Mats here" and then the video interview started. When they ask why I "make this kind of art" I answered because it's nice for the motivation and makes me run longer routes. They then overlaid a growing "longer" text as a dick joke.
Now, the theme was anyways a silly one, so I don't mind. But made me realize how easy it is to edit stuff to suit what they want to show, no matter the context.
* I do admit I have also ran a penis, so it's not entirely incorrect. But all questions in the interview was in a general context and didn't know this was gonna be the angle.