This magazine is no longer legitimate.

  • lemmydripzdotz456@lemmy.world
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    21 days ago

    FWIW, I think they pick the most influential person or persons, not the person I think is the best from the year. Hitler was person of the year and so was Trump.

    • davidgro@lemmy.world
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      21 days ago

      Exactly this. “AI” and the people behind it were highly newsworthy, it’s not a prize and never has been.

        • Denjin@feddit.uk
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          20 days ago

          The front page literally says: “the architects of AI” are the person of the year.

          • queermunist she/her@lemmy.ml
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            20 days ago

            In tiny font compared to everything else. It’s clear AI is the person of the year.

            Although “the architects of subprime mortgages” would have been a funny person of the year too.

        • ch00f@lemmy.world
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          20 days ago

          I mean I was the Time person of the year in 2006, and I was still in high school.

        • Daniel Quinn@lemmy.caEnglish
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          20 days ago

          Despite the name, the title is not just granted to individuals. Pairs of people such as married couples and political opponents, classes of people, and inanimate objects have all been selected for the special year-end issue.

          — Wikipedia

          Notable past winners include:

          • The computer
          • The endangered Earth
          • The Spirit of Ukraine
          • taiyang@lemmy.world
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            20 days ago

            Useful information. That said, it’s probably a little more dangerous in this case because too many people are personifying LLM behavior. I don’t think any people assume The Spirit of Ukraine is a sentient being, for instance.

            But I concede that the people pushing AI certainly can be, especially since their influence has ruined so many lives already and is poised to ruin many more, both directly and indirectly.

          • queermunist she/her@lemmy.ml
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            20 days ago

            It’s more of a branding thing I guess. It’s not like the “award” is real, it’s just “this is what the ruling class likes this year”

    • takeda@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      20 days ago

      Yeah, that’s the excuse they use when later it turns out that their picks weren’t that good, but overall theme is that they try to show the positive people/events.

      AI is being prepared as a revolution that can have positive benefits, they are also trying to mislead people that it can think, though when you actually use it for things like software engineering you quickly learn that it is now scam than anything.

      The tool is only good in negative aspects such as disinformation and surveillance.

  • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.worldM
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    20 days ago

    I stopped considering it legitimate when they claimed that I was person of the year in 2006. I didn’t even do anything besides post on myspace, leave youtube comments, drank vodka, and slept around.

    What? It was my early 20s…if you don’t wake up five different times, in five different womens beds, where you have no clue who they are, where you are, or where your kidneys are…then you’re not doing your early 20s right!

    Now…early 40s? I drink a lot of water. Did you know you should be drinking more water? Because you should be drinking more water.

  • spongebue@lemmy.world
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    20 days ago

    Everyone here is complaining that AI isn’t a person and bringing up 2006… Nobody seems to remember 1982’s person of the year.

  • drdiddlybadger@pawb.social
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    21 days ago

    In defense of Time magazine here they did have Hitler as person of the year once. Its just the most influential person/thing not the “best”.