Am I the only one who thinks this kind of stuff should be stopped? No doubt the OP is creative and has a great set of skills, but the fact he intentionally faked the information, to the extent of building a 3D model, took the rendered picture using his phone and put it on the web, really made me feel this has crossed the line.
I can accept mistakes made on good faith or a benign April Fool joke, but not this kind of deliberate lies and manipulations. It is a waste of everybody's time with no real value in the end.
Journalists indeed should check their reference sources, but it doesn't mean it is OK to deliberately faking news just to check if the journalists have done their job. Their time could be used in other much more productive ways. I am quite appalled to see people are implicitly encouraging this kind of behavior, little did they realize this is eroding the trust we have had in the tech community.
If we don't do something, more and more fake news will appear. I presume all of us love interesting and trustworthy news articles, no?
Bottom line: I recognize there are always fake news articles on Internet, my point is we should condemn and put a stop to this kind of deliberate hoax to prevent the further deteriorating of news quality.
At some point, news quality drops below a threshold and readers who value quality stop reading, at which point they find more reliable sources of news. Therefore, creating hoaxes encourages fact-checking due to the threat of reduced readership, if too many hoaxes are put forth as news.
We need more scrupulous journalists, not more scrupulous community members.
It's like you're blaming people who bribe cops for police corruption. What's needed is police who won't take bribes, not to have people stop attempting to bribe them.
More hoaxes, I say. Let's see how quickly web "journalists" can be pushed into doing some actual work.
He didn't send it to any news organizations. He didn't trick anyone about what it was. He just put the image in a semi-public gallery. What the heck do you want to stop? 3d rendering?
I can accept mistakes made on good faith or a benign April Fool joke, but not this kind of deliberate lies and manipulations. It is a waste of everybody's time with no real value in the end.
Journalists indeed should check their reference sources, but it doesn't mean it is OK to deliberately faking news just to check if the journalists have done their job. Their time could be used in other much more productive ways. I am quite appalled to see people are implicitly encouraging this kind of behavior, little did they realize this is eroding the trust we have had in the tech community.
If we don't do something, more and more fake news will appear. I presume all of us love interesting and trustworthy news articles, no?
Bottom line: I recognize there are always fake news articles on Internet, my point is we should condemn and put a stop to this kind of deliberate hoax to prevent the further deteriorating of news quality.