Soon whole world will be fluent in impeccable American English, but only on paper.
Pretty easy to condition a prompt with regional idioms and spellyngs.
Pakistani newspaper mistakenly prints AI prompt with the article
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Re: Pakistani newspaper mistakenly prints AI prompt with the article
#52Earlier 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.
This dates back to at least the late 1990s for financial reports. A friend demoed such a system to me at that time. Much statistically-based news (finance, business reports, weather, sport, disasters, astronomical events) are heavily formulaic and can at least in large part or initial report be automated, which speeds information dissemination. Of course, it's also possible to distribute raw data tables, charts, or m…
At least in the case of Bloomberg they would like you to pay for that raw data. That's their bread and butter.
Re: Pakistani newspaper mistakenly prints AI prompt with the article
#53It's like that story "Pontypool" except for bullshit. The bullshit has congealed into living forms, breeding and evolving.
(Ya, bullshit is the precise term here. Zero consciousness of truth or falsehood. Just contextually fitting)
Re: Pakistani newspaper mistakenly prints AI prompt with the article
#54The 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-...
Scientific paper as well: https://fediscience.org/@GeorgKrammer/115536337398227063 > Original https://doi.org/10.1016/j.surfin.2024.104081 > and retraction: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.surfin.2024.104081 >.
I still think someone should have done this as a pun and get your paper trending everywhere.
Re: Pakistani newspaper mistakenly prints AI prompt with the article
#55The online edition was edited later. "This newspaper report was originally edited using AI, which is in violation of Dawn’s current AI policy. The policy is also available on our website. The report also carried some junk, which has now been edited out. The matter is being investigated. The violation of AI policy is regretted. — Editor" https://www.dawn.com/news/1954574 edit: Text link of the printed edition. Might n…
> The violation of AI policy is regretted. That's a good example of when you shouldn't use passive voice.
On the other hand, this way you know they probably didn't use the chatbot to write the apology.
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#56The online edition was edited later. "This newspaper report was originally edited using AI, which is in violation of Dawn’s current AI policy. The policy is also available on our website. The report also carried some junk, which has now been edited out. The matter is being investigated. The violation of AI policy is regretted. — Editor" https://www.dawn.com/news/1954574 edit: Text link of the printed edition. Might n…
> The violation of AI policy is regretted. That's a good example of when you shouldn't use passive voice.
This is a convention for journalistic corrections, e.g., "The Times regrets the error", used to note corrections for at least a century:
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/13/insider/the-times-regrets...>
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#57Earlier 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.
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#58As 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!
I think better to put that someone extra further up in the pipeline who knows how to prompt the LLM correctly so that it doesn't generate the fluff to begin with.
Or get software engineers to produce domain specific tooling rather than the domain relying on generic tooling which lead to such mistakes (although this is speculation.. but still to me it seems like the author of that article was using the vanilla ChatGPT client)
/s I am now thinking of setting up an "AI Consultancy" which will be able to provide both these resources to those seeking such services. I mean, why have only one of those when both are available.
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#59Earlier quoted context omitted.
This dates back to at least the late 1990s for financial reports. A friend demoed such a system to me at that time. Much statistically-based news (finance, business reports, weather, sport, disasters, astronomical events) are heavily formulaic and can at least in large part or initial report be automated, which speeds information dissemination. Of course, it's also possible to distribute raw data tables, charts, or m…
At least in the case of Bloomberg they would like you to pay for that raw data. That's their bread and butter.
True.
But there's the approach the Economist takes. For many decades, it's relied on a three-legged revenue model: subscriptions, advertising, and bespoke consulting and research through the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU). My understanding is that revenues are split roughly evenly amongst these, and that they tend to even out cash-flow throughout economic cycles (advertising is famously pro-cyclical, subscriptions and analysis somewhat less so).
To that extent, the graphs and maps the Economist actually does include in its articles (as well as many of its "special reports") are both teasers and loss-leader marketing for EIU services. I believe that many of the special reports arise out of EIU research.
https://www.eiu.com/n/>
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economist_Intelligence_Unit>
Re: Pakistani newspaper mistakenly prints AI prompt with the article
#60The 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.
A non-"AI" template is probably getting filled in with numbers straight from some relevant source. AI may produce something more conversational today but as someone else observed, this is a high-hallucination point for them. Even if they get one statistic right they're pretty inclined to start making up statistics that weren't provided to them at all if they sound good.