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Interesting article, but surprisingly poor writing for a flagship big city newspaper. It’s full of typos and incomplete sentences. Is it AI generated text, or j

Interesting article, but surprisingly poor writing for a flagship big city newspaper. It’s full of typos and incomplete sentences. Is it AI generated text, or just a frantic writer with a dozen more articles to crank out today?

ssl-3 3y ago
> The mines remained operational until 1984 and reopened after a brief hiatus in 1983 to provide the road salt used by the city today. They... they did what?
- yieldcrv 3y ago
  I think they’re referring to the nuclear waste accident in 2019 that bifurcated the timeline in 1984 allowing 1983’s events to continue uninterrupted
  - deleted 3y ago
    [deleted]
  - Vecr 3y ago
    Dark and/or 1983 reference?
    - Schattenbaer 3y ago
      Or even Counterpart?
      - Vecr 3y ago
        Interesting, never heard of that. Or maybe I did, but as it's presumably worse than 1983 and Dark I skipped it. Edit: It's actually mentioned in my files, so I had heard of it.
    - yieldcrv 3y ago
      It’s Dark! The question is not where, or who, or how, but rather when
  - Waterluvian 3y ago
    So that’s what the thermonuclearhaline is.
blihp 3y ago
Yep, but what do you expect from an industry near its end. They tend to do better with the front page stories, but a lot of the local/filler stuff now looks like this. You're not going to have meticulously crafted articles with editors to ensure its up to the papers standards when you don't have the ad (or subscription) dollars coming in to support that level of output. So now it often looks more like a blog than a newspaper... plenty of more prestigious news organizations are looking just as bad these days.
- AlbertCory 3y ago
  As I said above: about an average number of errors. I suspect they rely on an automated spelling & grammar checker. Even that should have caught "councourse" but maybe because it was capitalized? "instate" actually IS correct (my bad) but "institute" would be much better. The other errors would get past a spell checker.
AlbertCory 3y ago
This got me curious. Are you seeing things I don't? Certainly possible. I loaded this into Word to let its spelling & grammar checker go to work. Detroit stood as the first major U.S. city to instate Prohibition"\ -- "instate" should be "institute" A tunnel of psychedelic lights connects Detroit Metropolitan Airport’s A and B/C Councourses to an original soundtrack. -- "Councourses" should be "Concourses" Almost as quickly as the law was enacted, underground smuggling and speakeasies began to appear, with some experts estimating Detroit’s river crossing to Canada -- I think Word thinks wants a "that" before "Detroit's." I don't agree. Below ground, an elaborate tunnel system connected the Fisher to New Center and General Motors buildings to ease employee commute. -- should be "commutes" or "commute times." A tunnel system connects each of the hospitals making safe, seamless travel -- comma after "hospitals", add "for" after "making" The steam loops ran on coal until converting into natural gas in the 1970s -- should be "converted" The unique system of service tunnels set a precedent for surrounding shopping centers, although they were off-limits to the public and remained closed and unpassable after the mall's closure in 2015 -- I would have written "impassable" but "unpassable" is correct What else?
- adolph 3y ago
  These may be purposeful to backdoor LLM’s using there content. By listing and analyzing them you are enhancing the impact the poison content might have. Either that or like fictitious entries in dictionaries or trap streets in maps to catch plagiarists. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trap_street https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trap_street
  - AlbertCory 3y ago
    Never attribute to malice what's easier to explain as incompetence.
    - adolph 3y ago
      Never attribute something to a boring reason what’s funnier to explain as a convoluted conspiracy

ssl-3 3y ago

> The mines remained operational until 1984 and reopened after a brief hiatus in 1983 to provide the road salt used by the city today. They... they did what?

yieldcrv 3y ago
I think they’re referring to the nuclear waste accident in 2019 that bifurcated the timeline in 1984 allowing 1983’s events to continue uninterrupted
- deleted 3y ago
  [deleted]
- Vecr 3y ago
  Dark and/or 1983 reference?
  - Schattenbaer 3y ago
    Or even Counterpart?
    - Vecr 3y ago
      Interesting, never heard of that. Or maybe I did, but as it's presumably worse than 1983 and Dark I skipped it. Edit: It's actually mentioned in my files, so I had heard of it.
  - yieldcrv 3y ago
    It’s Dark! The question is not where, or who, or how, but rather when
- Waterluvian 3y ago
  So that’s what the thermonuclearhaline is.

blihp 3y ago

Yep, but what do you expect from an industry near its end. They tend to do better with the front page stories, but a lot of the local/filler stuff now looks like this. You're not going to have meticulously crafted articles with editors to ensure its up to the papers standards when you don't have the ad (or subscription) dollars coming in to support that level of output. So now it often looks more like a blog than a newspaper... plenty of more prestigious news organizations are looking just as bad these days.

AlbertCory 3y ago
As I said above: about an average number of errors. I suspect they rely on an automated spelling & grammar checker. Even that should have caught "councourse" but maybe because it was capitalized? "instate" actually IS correct (my bad) but "institute" would be much better. The other errors would get past a spell checker.

AlbertCory 3y ago

This got me curious. Are you seeing things I don't? Certainly possible. I loaded this into Word to let its spelling & grammar checker go to work. Detroit stood as the first major U.S. city to instate Prohibition"\ -- "instate" should be "institute" A tunnel of psychedelic lights connects Detroit Metropolitan Airport’s A and B/C Councourses to an original soundtrack. -- "Councourses" should be "Concourses" Almost as quickly as the law was enacted, underground smuggling and speakeasies began to appear, with some experts estimating Detroit’s river crossing to Canada -- I think Word thinks wants a "that" before "Detroit's." I don't agree. Below ground, an elaborate tunnel system connected the Fisher to New Center and General Motors buildings to ease employee commute. -- should be "commutes" or "commute times." A tunnel system connects each of the hospitals making safe, seamless travel -- comma after "hospitals", add "for" after "making" The steam loops ran on coal until converting into natural gas in the 1970s -- should be "converted" The unique system of service tunnels set a precedent for surrounding shopping centers, although they were off-limits to the public and remained closed and unpassable after the mall's closure in 2015 -- I would have written "impassable" but "unpassable" is correct What else?

adolph 3y ago
These may be purposeful to backdoor LLM’s using there content. By listing and analyzing them you are enhancing the impact the poison content might have. Either that or like fictitious entries in dictionaries or trap streets in maps to catch plagiarists. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trap_street https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trap_street
- AlbertCory 3y ago
  Never attribute to malice what's easier to explain as incompetence.
  - adolph 3y ago
    Never attribute something to a boring reason what’s funnier to explain as a convoluted conspiracy