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

by kavith 10mo ago

bonesss 10mo ago
As programmers I think we can extend some professional empathy and understanding: copy-and-pasting all day is a lot harder than you’d think.
- tonyhart7 10mo ago
  compared to the writing yourself???? absolutely not
  - IAmBroom 10mo ago
    It was sarcastic.
CGamesPlay 10mo ago
Maybe, although I'm a bit doubtful that they were 100% honest. > Entgegen unseren Standards
yard2010 10mo ago
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.
- phkahler 10mo ago
  >> 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.
  - Cthulhu_ 10mo ago
    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.
reaperducer 10mo ago
Fair play to them for owning up to their mistake, and not just pretending like it didn't happen! That's what the legitimate media has done for the last couple of hundred years. Every issue of the New York Times has a Corrections section. I think the Washington Post's is called Corrections and Amplifications. Bloggers just change the article and hope it didn't get cached in the Wayback Machine.
constantcrying 10mo ago
They do not deserve a shred of recommendation. This is just damage control, pretending that it did not happen never was an option. Instead they tried to claim that it was just a one of mistake. What it really shows is that nobody even bothers to read their articles before hitting publish and that AI is widely used internally.

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

by kavith 10mo ago

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

As programmers I think we can extend some professional empathy and understanding: copy-and-pasting all day is a lot harder than you’d think.

tonyhart7 10mo ago
compared to the writing yourself???? absolutely not
- IAmBroom 10mo ago
  It was sarcastic.

CGamesPlay 10mo ago

Maybe, although I'm a bit doubtful that they were 100% honest. > Entgegen unseren Standards

yard2010 10mo ago

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.

phkahler 10mo ago
>> 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.
- Cthulhu_ 10mo ago
  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.

reaperducer 10mo ago

Fair play to them for owning up to their mistake, and not just pretending like it didn't happen! That's what the legitimate media has done for the last couple of hundred years. Every issue of the New York Times has a Corrections section. I think the Washington Post's is called Corrections and Amplifications. Bloggers just change the article and hope it didn't get cached in the Wayback Machine.

constantcrying 10mo ago

They do not deserve a shred of recommendation. This is just damage control, pretending that it did not happen never was an option. Instead they tried to claim that it was just a one of mistake. What it really shows is that nobody even bothers to read their articles before hitting publish and that AI is widely used internally.