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Re:Google Stock Tumbles 8% After Its Bard AI Ad Shows Inaccu... by lazzlazzlazz on Wednesday February 08, 2023 @01:37PM (#34712609)
This is called "post hoc ergo propter hoc" and is near 100% of the content in mainstream financial publications. It mostly noise that reflects the interests of the authors and nothing more. Just take it for granted and move on.
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Re:Google Stock Tumbles 8% After Its Bard AI Ad Shows Inaccu... by fakedang on Wednesday February 08, 2023 @01:52PM (#34712848)
There's a reason we have TVs running financial news through the work day in finance offices worldwide - but in mute.
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Re:Google Stock Tumbles 8% After Its Bard AI Ad Shows Inaccu... by acchow on Wednesday February 08, 2023 @02:40PM (#34713701)
This is why all of these media outlets use words like "as" and "after", and never "because of". They do all the "post hoc" lifting and assume that the reader will automatically add the "ergo propter hoc".

"Google stock tumbles 8% after its"

which every consumer of media reads as

"Google stock tumbles 8% because its"

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Re:Google Stock Tumbles 8% After Its Bard AI Ad Shows Inaccu... by EForEndeavour on Wednesday February 08, 2023 @05:01PM (#34715987)
This shady use of temporal sequence to imply a causal link is one of my most hated writing tactics.

"HN Reader barfs aggressively after reading yet another intentionally misleading headline!"

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Re:Google Stock Tumbles 8% After Its Bard AI Ad Shows Inaccu... by ryandrake on Wednesday February 08, 2023 @10:42PM (#34719489)
There's probably an algorithm out there that just writes financial news all day using the MadLib:

"[COMPANY] stock [RISES|FALLS] amid [NEWS]."

All you have to do is foreach company, look up whether the stock is up or down, and then copy the first news search result that comes in related to the company. Bam, you have a headline for any financial news site.

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Re:Google Stock Tumbles 8% After Its Bard AI Ad Shows Inaccu... by nradov on Thursday February 09, 2023 @11:52AM (#34726945)
Yes some financial news outlets have been doing that since at least 2015.

https://www.theverge.com/2015/1/29/7939067/ap-journalism-aut...

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