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"That product saw little adoption due to privacy concerns about privacy, and pretty much languished." - A professional writer
by mortoc 1y ago
"That product saw little adoption due to privacy concerns about privacy, and pretty much languished."
- A professional writer
- ipsum2 1y agoTypos and grammatical errors are common in journalism nowadays, even with formerly respected organizations like APNews.
- lesuorac 1y agoI think they're pointing out that the sentence is symmetric. "That product saw little adoption" - "and pretty much languished." "privacy concerns" - "about privacy"
- aspenmayer 1y agoTautologically redundant is how I’ve heard other professional writers older and wiser than I am refer to this occurrence.
- floydnoel 1y agoI really enjoy how that phrase is also an example of itself- such a great term!
- DonHopkins 1y agoDepartment of Redundancy Department
- moc_was_wronged 1y ago[dead]
- blackoil 1y agoI think it boils down to you get what you pay for. If information is free, it will become same as noise.
- acegopher 1y agoAnd when it's offered for free once, it's then a race to the bottom. People in general don't understand the value of curation nor quality, especially when it comes to information. So it's hard for well-curated high quality information to remain because it costs money to make it.
- boothby 1y agoIt's crossed my mind that a couple of a certain class of typos in a document has become a signal of authenticity. It's only a matter of time* before we see prompting or even manual editing adapt to falsify that signal. * before this comment gets a single upvote, somebody will have vibe-coded this
- oldandboring 1y agoThe article also misspelled her last name.
- elicash 1y agoGetting rid of editors happened at the same time as shorter deadlines. I'm sympathetic.
- moc_was_wronged 1y ago[dead]
- lisbbb 1y agoHilarious! My son is taking Honors English in the 10th grade and I am constantly finding those kinds of mistakes in his writing assignments because he gets distracted by his phone a lot. He also adds a lot of extra sentences that say nothing of value, which I remove. I guess I'm his editor.
- stathibus 1y agoMakes sense, lack of editors is why all my essays in high school weren’t any good either
- busymom0 1y agoIronically, an AI would write a better sentence than this professional writer.
- krona 1y agoPoor style gives a sense of character and authenticity.
- RadiozRadioz 1y agoIn a text from a friend maybe. This is a professional news publication.
- LeifCarrotson 1y agoThe AI would, hands down, write a better sentence if you compared the output quality of an author writing 10,000 words per day with an AI writing 10,000 words per day. Or make the AI write 100,000 words per day, it could write sentences better than that 24/7 without breaking a sweat, while the human would literally be incapable of achieving this goal. But if you gave both a month to write the best 400 word article they could possibly generate on a particular subject, the human author would dominate. Give them time to make a few drafts, to research and think and talk to people, to edit and reorganize and restart and rehearse, and they'll produce something that's worth being read and re-read and considered thoughtfully by thousands of people. The problem is that the journalism industry has become optimized to generate content to be skimmed by a few people and read by thousands of bots.
- busymom0 1y ago> But if you gave both a month to write the best 400 word article they could possibly generate on a particular subject, the human author would dominate. What proof is there for this?
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- 1vuio0pswjnm7 1y agoWhy can't "AI" be used to fix such errors Unless this grammatical error is extremely common, LLMs should make this an easy one to detect (relatively low probability of next token) Why not use "AI" to fix human error (like this one, presumably) instead of expecting people to fix "AI" output
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