incest
- noun
- /ˈɪnˌsɛst/
- Jargon
- Incest within an exchange that cannot do without, as Boogie defined the daily phenom.
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Watch on YouTubeThat's when you have that's incest, that's intellectual incest.
- That's when you have that's incest, that's intellectual incest.
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That's when you have that's incest, that's intellectual incest.
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But the other side of this that I want to mention is that I'd love to get your take on is this idea of big tech corporate incest in AI.
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The money and government/corporate incest is rampant.
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And there's an incest problem, one we just can't shake.
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Somewhere in there is the 'democracy' thing, and the war profits thing, and last but not least, the competency thing, and the political and economic incest that goes on in connection with government, Wall St., and the military, AKA the fascism thing...
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Many researchers raise concerns about the issue of incest in the reporting of news stories that use the same sources repeatedly.
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The study highlighted an incest problem in academic publishing, where findings are often recycled without new contributions.
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Critics argued that there is significant incest in the tech industry, with companies relying heavily on similar ideas and innovations.
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Incest is also used in research and journalism to mean information that keeps circulating inside the same small group. A helpful way to remember this use is to think of ideas 'staying inside the family' and being repeated without new proof, which can make results wrong.