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Re: Pakistani newspaper mistakenly prints AI prompt with the article

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When 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…”

"Would you like me to break this down for you in a table format?

Re: Pakistani newspaper mistakenly prints AI prompt with the article

#72

When 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…”

That wasn’t a journalist, it was an LLM. But they forgot to add the prompt.

Re: Pakistani newspaper mistakenly prints AI prompt with the article

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post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Fair play to them for owning up to their mistake, and not just pretending like it didn't happen!

You're absolutely right! but they can shove this euphemism. Just say that chatgpt wrote the article and no one read it before publishing, no need for all the fluff.

>> Just say that chatgpt wrote the article and no one read it before publishing

This is so interesting. I wonder if no human prompted for the article to be written either. I could see some kind of algorithm figuring out what to "write" about and prompting AI to create the articles automatically. Those are the jobs that are actually being replaced by AI - writing fluff crap to build an attention trap for ad revenue.

Re: Pakistani newspaper mistakenly prints AI prompt with the article

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

You're absolutely right! but they can shove this euphemism. Just say that chatgpt wrote the article and no one read it before publishing, no need for all the fluff.

>> Just say that chatgpt wrote the article and no one read it before publishing This is so interesting. I wonder if no human prompted for the article to be written either. I could see some kind of algorithm figuring out what to "write" about and prompting AI to create the articles automatically. Those are the jobs that are actually being replaced by AI - writing fluff crap to build an attention trap for ad revenue.

Very likely this already happens on slop websites (...which I can't name because I don't go there), which for example just republish press releases (which could be considered aggregation sites I guess), or which automatically scrape Reddit and translate them into listicles on the fly.

Re: Pakistani newspaper mistakenly prints AI prompt with the article

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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..."

This is the real issue; I'm sure journalists already use loads of shortcuts to do their job efficiently but the end responsible is the editor(s).

Re: Pakistani newspaper mistakenly prints AI prompt with the article

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post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Only Pakistanis knew from where the Dawn newspaper is, so the current title is more informative

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

Re: Pakistani newspaper mistakenly prints AI prompt with the article

#78

When 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…”

That wasn’t a journalist, it was an LLM. But they forgot to add the prompt.

no shit, Sherlock! ;-)

Re: Pakistani newspaper mistakenly prints AI prompt with the article

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When 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…”

That's a sharp comment–let's break down why that is.
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