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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…”

Now you're thinking like a *real investigative journalist*

Re: Pakistani newspaper mistakenly prints AI prompt with the article

#82

Soon whole world will be fluent in impeccable American English, but only on paper.

I've instructed Gemini to never give me the american spellings of words, and to always pronounce Z the proper way. Never give up the fight.

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…”

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Re: Pakistani newspaper mistakenly prints AI prompt with the article

#85

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…”

Oh God, doubling down on it like crazy.

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?

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One of the great advantages of AI for non english native speakers is the ability of the tool to speak in better English than the writer. With so many young journalists graduating from school using AI instead of learning the full language, this use would become more frequent. At my work place, non native speakers would send me documents for grammatical corrections. They don’t do that anymore! Hoorah!

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.

Re: Pakistani newspaper mistakenly prints AI prompt with the article

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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.

Occasionally I find it helpful, but it would be good to have the option to remove it from the context.

Re: Pakistani newspaper mistakenly prints AI prompt with the article

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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…

For years, both the financial and sports news sides of things have generated increasingly templated "articles", this just feels like the latest iteration.

Both categories are and have-been bottom-feeder copy, and have been prior to the prevalence of LLMs.
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