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What a peculiar caption on the image: > Arrays of photovoltaic solar panels are seen at the Tenaska Imperial Solar Energy Center South as the spread of the cor

by WJW 6y ago

What a peculiar caption on the image: > Arrays of photovoltaic solar panels are seen at the Tenaska Imperial Solar Energy Center South as the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) continues in this aerial photo There does not seem to a single person in the image and I don't think solar panels can catch COVID. How is the spread of COVID continuing "in this aerial photo" haha.

nathancahill 6y ago
Gaming SEO maybe?
indemnity 6y ago
Perhaps there are 5G radios in the vicinity.
guerrilla 6y ago
Written by AI?
vmception 6y ago
It’s like saying “in bed” after reading any fortune cookie “As the spread of the coronavirus disease continues”, good for any sentence!
KirillPanov 6y ago
The news biz has its own version of SEO, keyed mainly off of article titles but also to a lesser extent off of image titles. Both of those are selected by the editor, not the reporter. The main difference is that they aren't optimizing for search engines. There were tons of cases of this weird "article/photo title is trying way too hard to spin this story while the text is pretty neutral and unbiased" during election season. It also shows up in the tendency to insert the prefix "Commentary:" in the title of any article noting any negative facts about a certain particular country. The WSJ is particularly hilarious in this respect.
shoto_io 6y ago
I guess it was the AI built on Rust and hosted on Lambda that wrote this caption
maxerickson 6y ago
The picture was taken and captioned last March: https://www.reuters.com/search/pictures?blob=Tenaska+Imperial+Solar+Energy+Center+South&sortBy=&dateRange= https://www.reuters.com/search/pictures?blob=Tenaska+Imperia... This article just uses it without any changes. The caption would have been somewhat less strange at that point (but still hard to contextualize). Edit: Oops, the earliest date is June 2020. Doesn't really change the explanation any though.
indymike 6y ago
The caption is search spam. SEO is a thing for stock art.
bongobingo 6y ago
Have to keep people hysterical somehow.
- throwaway0a5e 6y ago
  With a side dish of "appeasing the algorithmic overlords".
sandworm101 6y ago
It looks like my latest Factorio biuld is bleeding into this reality again.
- WJW 6y ago
  You're playing with a COVID mod for Factorio? :O ... that sounds pretty cool actually, though I'm not sure how it would work. The main character of the game is pretty good at social distancing already.
- travisporter 6y ago
  Where are the damn drones that install them onto my roof?!
hnedeotes 6y ago
Hopefully someone has some spare paracetamol tablets

by WJW 6y ago

nathancahill 6y ago

Gaming SEO maybe?

indemnity 6y ago

Perhaps there are 5G radios in the vicinity.

guerrilla 6y ago

Written by AI?

vmception 6y ago

It’s like saying “in bed” after reading any fortune cookie “As the spread of the coronavirus disease continues”, good for any sentence!

KirillPanov 6y ago

The news biz has its own version of SEO, keyed mainly off of article titles but also to a lesser extent off of image titles. Both of those are selected by the editor, not the reporter. The main difference is that they aren't optimizing for search engines. There were tons of cases of this weird "article/photo title is trying way too hard to spin this story while the text is pretty neutral and unbiased" during election season. It also shows up in the tendency to insert the prefix "Commentary:" in the title of any article noting any negative facts about a certain particular country. The WSJ is particularly hilarious in this respect.

shoto_io 6y ago

I guess it was the AI built on Rust and hosted on Lambda that wrote this caption

maxerickson 6y ago

The picture was taken and captioned last March: https://www.reuters.com/search/pictures?blob=Tenaska+Imperial+Solar+Energy+Center+South&sortBy=&dateRange= https://www.reuters.com/search/pictures?blob=Tenaska+Imperia... This article just uses it without any changes. The caption would have been somewhat less strange at that point (but still hard to contextualize). Edit: Oops, the earliest date is June 2020. Doesn't really change the explanation any though.

indymike 6y ago

The caption is search spam. SEO is a thing for stock art.

bongobingo 6y ago

Have to keep people hysterical somehow.

throwaway0a5e 6y ago
With a side dish of "appeasing the algorithmic overlords".

sandworm101 6y ago

It looks like my latest Factorio biuld is bleeding into this reality again.

WJW 6y ago
You're playing with a COVID mod for Factorio? :O ... that sounds pretty cool actually, though I'm not sure how it would work. The main character of the game is pretty good at social distancing already.
travisporter 6y ago
Where are the damn drones that install them onto my roof?!

hnedeotes 6y ago

Hopefully someone has some spare paracetamol tablets