How Media Fueled a Shoplifting Panic, and an AI-Journalism Experiment Gone Wrong

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🗓️ 9 December 2023

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Debunking bad crime data; and reviewing an AI experiment that bungled local sports coverage.

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0:00.0	Retailers we talk to are losing billions of dollars to organized retail crime,
0:06.4	dangerous international crime rings and even groups with suspected ties to terrorism,
0:11.2	increasingly getting involved.
0:13.0	There's a pervasive theme in media coverage
0:15.1	about shoplifting that may stem from bad data.
0:18.8	From W NYC in New York, this is on the media.
0:22.0	I'm Michael Loeinger.
0:23.5	So the math isn't making sense,
0:25.6	but it sure feels like there's something going on
0:28.2	with shoplifting rates.
0:29.9	When we take New York City out,
0:32.0	shoplifting actually declined.
0:34.0	The headline is, it's actually not getting worse.
0:36.5	Also on this week's show, I speak to someone
0:38.7	who has misgivings about the way his company
0:41.3	use artificial intelligence.
0:43.4	What if this had been crime reporting?
0:45.8	Real harm could have been done.
0:47.8	I think it should give us all pause.
0:50.4	It's why I'm having this conversation with you. It's all coming up after this
0:59.7	From WNC in New York. This is on the media.
1:00.0	From WNYC in New York, this is on the media.
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