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Re: Pakistani newspaper mistakenly prints AI prompt with the article

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michaelbuckbee wrote: post #26
chrismorgan wrote: post #5

The current title (“Pakistani newspaper mistakenly prints AI prompt with the article”) isn’t correct, it wasn’t the prompt that was printed, but trailing chatbot fluff: > If you want, I can also create an even snappier “front-page style” version with punchy one-line stats and a bold, infographic-ready layout—perfect for maximum reader impact. Do you want me to do that next? The article in question is titled “Auto sal…

For years, both the financial and sports news sides of things have generated increasingly templated "articles", this just feels like the latest iteration.

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Re: Pakistani newspaper mistakenly prints AI prompt with the article

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Post by xhkkffbf »

chrismorgan wrote: post #5

The current title (“Pakistani newspaper mistakenly prints AI prompt with the article”) isn’t correct, it wasn’t the prompt that was printed, but trailing chatbot fluff: > If you want, I can also create an even snappier “front-page style” version with punchy one-line stats and a bold, infographic-ready layout—perfect for maximum reader impact. Do you want me to do that next? The article in question is titled “Auto sal…

Do we know it was an AI? I realize that it rings with a sycophantic tone that the AIs love to use, but I've worked with some humans who speak the same way. AIs didn't invent brownnosing.

Re: Pakistani newspaper mistakenly prints AI prompt with the article

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Post by simonw »

shagie wrote: post #107
michaelbuckbee wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For years, both the financial and sports news sides of things have generated increasingly templated "articles", this just feels like the latest iteration.

https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2015/05/20/406484294/an-n... ... The rules for the race: Both contenders waited for Denny's, the diner company, to come out with an earnings report. Once that was released, the stopwatch started. Both wrote a short radio story and get graded on speed and style. https://www.wired.com/story/wordsmith-robot-journalist-downl... https://archive.ph/gSdmb And this has been going on for a w…

I like Quakebot as an example of how to do this kind of thing ethically and with integrity: https://www.latimes.com/people/quakebot

> Quakebot is a software application developed by the Los Angeles Times to report the latest earthquakes as fast as possible. The computer program reviews earthquake notices from the U.S. Geological Survey and, if they meet certain criteria, automatically generates a draft article. The newsroom is alerted and, if a Times editor determines the post is newsworthy, the report is published.

Re: Pakistani newspaper mistakenly prints AI prompt with the article

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Post by dwringer »

butlike wrote: post #101
dwringer wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Gemini has been doing this to me for the past few weeks at the end of basically every single response now, and it often seems to result in the subsequent responses getting off track and lower quality as all these extra tangets start polluting the context. Not to mention how distracting it is as it throws off the reply I was already halfway in the middle of composing by the time I read it.

Why do you respond to its prompting? It's a machine

Because if I don't, it tends to misinterpret the next thing I say because it reads that as an answer to the question it just asked me.

Re: Pakistani newspaper mistakenly prints AI prompt with the article

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Post by amrocha »

yoyohello13 wrote: post #95
guytv wrote: post #40

Which raises the question: if everything is generated, why bother reading it at all? Just ask the LLM what you want to know—why treat headlines like bookmarks?

One interesting thing about the LLM era is it really highlights what things in life actually add value.

I haven’t had that experience at all. My experience is that if you allow people to be lazy they will be, at the expense of society.

What has your experience been like?

Re: Pakistani newspaper mistakenly prints AI prompt with the article

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Post by pohl »

c0wb0yc0d3r wrote: post #36
zkmon wrote: post #31

Actually, at some point, it makes sense to be honest about usage of AI and not feeling to hide that. Just like how food products are expected to print about the ingredients. One should not feel ashamed to declare the usage of AI, just like you are not ashamed to use a calculator.

I feel like there is a difference here. A calculator has no bias. LLMs do, obviously. News is not the place for bias. Unless the LLM used hallucinated the operator’s intentions, the operator was using the LLM to doctor the article to capture readers not report the news.

> News is not the place for bias

TBH, I think that journalists tying themselves into pretzels in an effort to remain unbiased does more damage than the presence of some bias. As a consumer of news, I want journalists to be biased, for example, towards the rule of law, the preservations of institutions, and checks & balances, and even norms.

Re: Pakistani newspaper mistakenly prints AI prompt with the article

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Post by pseudony »

abdullahkhalids wrote: post #63
chrismorgan wrote: post #5

The current title (“Pakistani newspaper mistakenly prints AI prompt with the article”) isn’t correct, it wasn’t the prompt that was printed, but trailing chatbot fluff: > If you want, I can also create an even snappier “front-page style” version with punchy one-line stats and a bold, infographic-ready layout—perfect for maximum reader impact. Do you want me to do that next? The article in question is titled “Auto sal…

The newspaper in question is Pakistan's English language "newspaper of record", which has wide readership. For some reason, they rarely ever add any graphs or tables to financial articles, which I have never understood. Their readership is all college educated. One time I read an Op-Ed, where the author wrote something like: If you go to this gov webpage, and take the data and put it on excel, and plot this thing vs…

Maybe the model just wasn’t multi-modal back then ;)
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