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Besides the fact that this article is obviously AI generated (and not even well, why is there mismatches in british/american english? I can only assume that the
by Anon1096 11mo ago
Besides the fact that this article is obviously AI generated (and not even well, why is there mismatches in british/american english? I can only assume that the few parts in british english are the human author's writing or edits), yes "overutilization" is not a real thing. There is a level of utilization at every price point. If something is "overutilizated" that actually means it's just being offered at a low price, which is good for consumers. It's a nice scare word though and there's endless appetite at the moment for ai-doomer articles.
- bobmcnamara 11mo ago> why is there mismatches in british/american english You sometimes see this with real live humans who have lived in multiple counties.
- delusional 11mo agoI do this because I'm a non-native english speaker. My preference varies from word to word. I write color, but i also write aliminium.
- SJC_Hacker 11mo ago> multiple counties Pay no attention to those fopheads from Kent. We speak proper British English here in Essex
- nucleardog 11mo ago> You sometimes see this with real live humans who have lived in multiple counties. Also very common with... most Canadians. We officially use an English closer to British English (Zed not zee, honour not honor) however geographically and culturally we're very close to the US. At school you learn "X, Y, Zed". The toy you buy your toddler is made for the US and Canadian market and sings "X, Y, Zee" as does practically every show on TV. The dictionary says it's spelled "colour" but most of the books you read will spell it "color". Most people we communicate with are either from Canada or the US, so much of our personal communication is with US English. But also there are a number of British shows that air here, so some particularly British phrases do sneak in to a lot of people's lexicon. See a similar thing in the way we measure things. We use celsius for temperature but most of our thermostats default to Fahrenheit and most cookbooks are primarily in imperial measures and units because they're from the US. The store sells everything in grams and kilograms, but most recipes are still in tablespoons/cups/etc. Most things are sold in metric, but when you buy lumber it's sold in feet, and any construction site is going to be working primarily in feet and inches. If anything I expect any AI-written content would be more consistent about this than I usually am.
- __s 11mo agoFor Canadian units I always like this handy flow chart: https://www.reddit.com/r/HelloInternet/comments/d1hwpx/canadian_measurement_flowchart_v2 https://www.reddit.com/r/HelloInternet/comments/d1hwpx/canad...
- martinald 11mo agoAuthor here, I mix up American and British English all the time. It's pretty common for us Brits to do that imo. See also how all (?) Brits pronounce Gen Z in the American way (ie zee, not zed).
- youngtaff 11mo agoBrit here… I say Gen Zed!
- Anon1096 11mo agoSorry but it's highly suspect to be spelling the same word multiple different ways across paragraphs. You switch between using centre/center or utilization/utilisation? It is a very weird mistake to make for a human.
- xarope 11mo agoI dunno, I switch between grey and gray all the time; comes with having worked in so many different countries.
- bbrks 11mo agoI mix British and American English all the time. Subconsciously I type in British English but since I work in American English, my spell checkers are usually configured for en-US and that usually means a weird mix of half and half by the time I've fixed the red squiggles I notice.
- martinald 11mo agoYes exactly!
- heliumtera 11mo agoTo be honest it doesn't feel manually edited. Bullet points hell, a table that feels it came straight out of grok.
- knollimar 11mo agoBy this logic loss leaders to drive out competition are good gor the consumer, no?
- Hikikomori 11mo ago> why is there mismatches in british/american english Some people are not from usa or England.
- MattGrommes 11mo agoOne of my least favorite things to come from AI is labelling any writing someone doesn't like as "obviously AI generated". I've read 3 of these kinds of comments on HN just today.
- pmontra 11mo agoAs non native English speaker I mix British and American English all the time, and you should hear me speaking. I mix in some novel accent too. Anyway, the author answered in a sibling reply.