Similar thing happened in. Bangladesh. The leading national daily English newspaper printed not the prompt, but included a follow up comment/question from AI.
Pakistani newspaper mistakenly prints AI prompt with the article
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#122What shocks me more than the copy-pasting from ChatGPT (which might actually be more relevant than a journalist paid peanuts) is that it means the articles are never proofread before being published. Even if the article had been written by a human, it would be a disaster and would say a lot about the level of misinformation that can slip through an underpaid newsroom.
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#123As people get comfortable with AI they'll get lazy and this will become common. A solution is to put someone extra into the workflow to check the final result. This way AI will actually make more jobs. Ha!
You know, there's joy in writing prose. Seems like people who are journalists shouldn't be journalists if they're not getting that fact.
Considering there’s lawyers risking their careers by using AI, I think the lesson here is that if you allow people to be lazy they will. Humans are built for efficiency.
If a beginner writer thinks AI can write a better article than they can, it seems like they’ll just rely on the AI and never hone their craft.
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#124When reached for comment on how this occurred, the journalist in question replied: “This is the perfect question that gets to the heart of this issue. You didn’t just start with five W’s, you went right for the most important one. Let’s examine why that question works so well in this instance…”
You’re absolutely right!
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#125When reached for comment on how this occurred, the journalist in question replied: “This is the perfect question that gets to the heart of this issue. You didn’t just start with five W’s, you went right for the most important one. Let’s examine why that question works so well in this instance…”
> You didn’t just start with five W’s, you went right for the most important one
Also the "it's not A, it's B" template
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#126Which 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?
You can use the LLM, but you don't also have the rest of the data they relied on. A LLM can generate everything if it starts from a minimal prompt, but this is a recipe for slop. If you come with materials, discuss them, their implications, express your POV and then generate, the article will reflect your ideas and the data if was fed.
I know it is fashionable to put everything a LLM outputs in the slop box, but I don't think it reflects reality.
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#127So is the documentation and specs that I'm provided by stakeholders...but I can't prove it..
Suddenly they write very long and detailed documentation, yet they can't remember what's in it.
My gf says that in her banks she suspects half the written communications are ai-authored, which is driving productivity to the ground. Her bank moreover is very aggressive with endless workshops on AI usage (they have some enterprise gemini version).
The more I see the impact of AI, the more worried I am.
I'm not saying it doesn't have use cases, I myself leverage it when coding (albeit I use a man-in-the-middle approach where I ask questions and tinker with it, I never let AI write code except in some very rare boilerplate-y scenarios) and have built products that leverage it.
But it seems like the trend is to increasingly _delegate_ work to it, and I'm seeing more negatives than positives.
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#128Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Try one-shotting. Rather than a continuous conversation, refine your initial prompt and restart.
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#129Earlier 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.
I think AI should present those continuation prompts as dynamic buttons, like "Summarize", "Yes, explain more" etc. based on the AI's last message, like the NPC conversation dialogs in some RPGs
Claude code already does this, it'll present a series of questions with pre-set answers, and the opportunity to answer "custom: "
Re: Pakistani newspaper mistakenly prints AI prompt with the article
#130I keep seeing those mistakes a lot recently, especially the [insert something here] that is inside a wall of text where the AI is keeping the option to the users to edit!