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Pakistani newspaper mistakenly prints AI prompt with the article
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Re: Pakistani newspaper mistakenly prints AI prompt with the article
#132Which 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 do…
> If you come with materials, discuss them, their implications, express your POV and then generate
Then the LLM can still make shit up and be absolutely wrong.
Re: Pakistani newspaper mistakenly prints AI prompt with the article
#133Can someone post a screenshot? The tweet is withheld in India due to regulations.
Re: Pakistani newspaper mistakenly prints AI prompt with the article
#134I get that transforming a bunch of facts into prose is boring.
As a reader, I can't get over the fact that I'm supposed to read a text that nobody could be bothered to write.
I wonder how often we waste energy nowadays by telling an AI to turn a one-sentence-prompt into a full e-mail, only for the other side to tell the AI to summarize it in one sentence.
Re: Pakistani newspaper mistakenly prints AI prompt with the article
#135I get that transforming a bunch of facts into prose is boring. As a reader, I can't get over the fact that I'm supposed to read a text that nobody could be bothered to write. I wonder how often we waste energy nowadays by telling an AI to turn a one-sentence-prompt into a full e-mail, only for the other side to tell the AI to summarize it in one sentence.
I would be happy to read boring facts without the fluff
Re: Pakistani newspaper mistakenly prints AI prompt with the article
#136Now we need AI to replace human users of chatgpt
Re: Pakistani newspaper mistakenly prints AI prompt with the article
#137https://archive.ph/ER3di
Since the tweet seems to have been deleted.
Re: Pakistani newspaper mistakenly prints AI prompt with the article
#138Earlier quoted context omitted.
That's just a manner of speaking in former British colonies, or at least the subcontinent. Much of formal speech like a bureaucrat wrote it because, well, the civil service ran India and that's who everyone emulated.
It’s still passive voice, the kind used when trying to avoid blame or responsibility. So pretty much fits in bureaucratic places. That’s just…mistakes were made.
This pattern of writing goes back to the Spanish conquistadors at the very least. They frequently described their actions in a passive voice when doing something they knew was horrible, only to switch to aggrandizing active voice when writing about their successes. It’s a standard way to blur responsibility and present violence as an almost natural “fact” rather than a deliberate action by identifiable agents.
It didn’t escape everyone’s attention though. Bartolomé de las Casas definitely noticed it.
Re: Pakistani newspaper mistakenly prints AI prompt with the article
#139Earlier quoted context omitted.
Great advantages for the writer . It's not a great advantage for the reader. The AI could completely change the meaning of the article and the author would be none the wiser.
I have found the AI does a better job than me at understanding what someone is saying.
How do you know
Re: Pakistani newspaper mistakenly prints AI prompt with the article
#140Hmm, for some reason I assumed that printing referred to a figure of speech here (like they went to press or something), but no, it's actually printed, AI call to action included.
I think a brilliant solution for these issues would be to get into the habit of asking the AI to double check the article before the final copy-paste.