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Re: Pakistani newspaper mistakenly prints AI prompt with the article

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Post by nashashmi »

wg0 wrote: post #141
nashashmi wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It might be better to mention “Dawn newspaper” instead of “Pakistani newspaper”.

Nobody outside Pakistan knows Dawn even though it is the newspaper that was founded by Muhammad Ali Jinnah (considered founding father of the nation) and one of the largest and most prestigious as well.

It is like the NYT for the country. But the relevant detail here is the printing of the prompt in a nationally recognized newspaper. The brand, as local as it maybe, still provides more context than some random newspaper in a foreign country would.

And I have ran into Dawn newspaper on google news frontpage several times, usually on entertainment stuff.

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Post by nashashmi »

mh- wrote: post #104
rat9988 wrote: post #77

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It doesn't matter much in which country it is located actually. It also provides less information.

How does including the country of origin provide less information than omitting it?

Does omitting the brand provide more information? Newspaper brand is more relevant than the country.

Re: Pakistani newspaper mistakenly prints AI prompt with the article

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Post by lubujackson »

dwringer wrote: post #49
layer8 wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The AI is prompting the human here, so the title isn't strictly wrong. ;)

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.

Add "Complete this request as a single task and do not ask any follow-up questions." Or some variation of that. They keep screwing with default behavior, but you can explicitly direct the LLM to override it.

Re: Pakistani newspaper mistakenly prints AI prompt with the article

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Post by zkmon »

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.

I don't see why a content can't carry a label saying "AI-generated", or "Reviewed by AI", or "Refined using AI" etc. This allows consumer to consume it with appropriate caution.

Re: Pakistani newspaper mistakenly prints AI prompt with the article

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Post by LeicaLatte »

bojle wrote: post #148
LeicaLatte wrote: post #144

A simple "END OF ARTICLE" delimiter in prompts might prevent most of these embarrassing slips.

I think the greater issue here is the possibility of the entire article being AI slop and the 'doomed' direction in which we are heading where reputed sources of information are churning out slop.

Completion API is only half the product. Teams integrate these tools into production with nothing but policy documents between them & incidents. The guardrail system does not exist for a reason. No business model. No investors. No revenue stream.

Tesla didn't just build FSD. They had to build a verification layer: driver cameras, steering sensors, attention alerts. That parallel software makes autopilot road ready.

Re: Pakistani newspaper mistakenly prints AI prompt with the article

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Post by SoftTalker »

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…

> it wasn’t the prompt that was printed, but trailing chatbot fluff

I've seen that sort of thing copy/pasted in several emails at work, usually ones that are announcing something on a staff email list.

Sort of a givaway that the email isn't very important.

Re: Pakistani newspaper mistakenly prints AI prompt with the article

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Post by SoftTalker »

IAmBroom wrote: post #67
bschne wrote: post #10

The same thing happened to German magazine Spiegel recently, see the correction remark at the end of this article https://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/unternehmen/deutsche-bahn-...

"We regret to admit that our editors don't actually take the time to read these articles before hitting the PUBLISH button..."

The editors were laid off and replaced by an LLM. Or more likely, the editorial staff was cut in half and the ones who were kept were told to use LLMs to handle the increased workload.
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