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- cross-posted to:
- tech@kbin.social
- technology@lemmy.world
- technology@beehaw.org
The Verge published this spam article about the “best printers of 2024” to demonstrate how terrible Google’s search results are. It now appears as the top non-sponsored post if you search “best printer” on Google.
I love a good, informative troll.
But he says right in the article that he’s including AI content at the bottom of the article, to pad it out.
My point is if he’s being honest and that’s the true reason, or just being sneaky and trying to slip in AI content into a human written article.
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The thing is that the AI text is atrocious and vapid. It takes up a lot of space and says
“Laser printers are better in every way minus full color than inkjets, but are bigger and more expensive than inkjet printers.”
The trick is that AI took 12 paragraphs and using a list incorrectly to do it instead of a sentence. And the editor calls it out for that.
Not disputing that. My point, tongue-in-cheek, was if an editor says “hey I’m going to pad my article with a bad AI written portion”, then we lower our guard, and are more acceptive of including AI write ups in reviews.
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It’s a gag, I promise. He’s talked about it on their podcast