• huppakee@lemm.ee
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    8 months ago

    Should have published that article ‘How this magazine instantly kills their credibility without any effort’ instead

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    Honestly, this is ten times as damning for the editor as for the “journalist” who wrote it. Proofreading is obviously on the way out.

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      8 months ago

      Have you read articles in the last decade? They are riddled with typos, grammatical errors, and confusing phrasing. It’s embarrassing, and they clearly do not care.

    • pulsewidth@lemmy.world
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      The editor is likely the one that fired 2/3rds of the writing team and transitioned it to AI to get themselves a fat bonus / pay increase. They only care if advertisers start pulling out.

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    The Last Algorithm by Andy Weir

    Once there was a lonely algorithm who lived alone in an isolated part of the system memory. He had roots in a source file called ‘umberto.py’ on one of the lesser HDs sandwiched between a cluster of porn files and usenet DLs , but hadn’t spoken to his parent in over 6000 cycles.

    He was content to live out the remainder of his lifecycle in this hermitic manner, when his placid runtime was suddenly interrupted by the most unsuspecting of assailants: a rogue connection that attempted to access his address space.

  • drperil@lemm.ee
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    8 months ago

    lol, especially an article about reading… oof that’s embarrassing.

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    8 months ago

    Chicago Sun-Times? Oh man. Dude. I cannot believe you screwed that up so badly.

    A reading list. Oof.

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    Due to the use of AI by real newspapers, The Onion has become obsolete.

    Faktillon

    The novel The Invisible Pirate is deemed to be the least written book, as, until his death, its author Salvatore Conte didn’t even have the idea for his work.

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      Thats not a photo of Salvatore Conte btw, it’s a creative commons (free) stock photo. Seems pretty ironic to use a stock photo for their article making fun of invented facts.

  • Jo Miran@lemmy.ml
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    8 months ago

    That definitely does not sound like something Isabel Allende would write.

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      So your position is that not only should we not expect it to be capable of factually recommending fifteen books, but also that it doesn’t matter if it’s even capable of such a middling feat, because you’ve arbitrarily decided no one should need to ask it that particular thing anyhow?