Axel Springer recruits OpenAI chatbot to promote news
I have to at least check Business Insider every day for a project I work on.
Several times recently I’ve found myself wondering which was the native language of the reporter – not English, obvs, so which one? So using AI to actually write the thing would be an improvement….
Interesting thought Tim.
I’ve always believed that the poor quality English is just due to them cutting back on the proof readers.
It’ll be entertaining if AI actually improves things.
They’ve still a long way to go before they reach the sheer awfulness of the “instruction manuals” provided with a lot of Chinese-manufactured computer components… They all seem to have been translated from Mandarin to English by someone who speaks neither language!
@BJ: I still remember buying a cheap computer card with instructions “to insert it 32 golden fingers down”. Didn’t say where to insert it.
The presentation might improve but the content could become unreliable. It turns out that “AI” has a curious tendency to just make shit up.
https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/judge-calls-michael-cohens-lawyer-on-the-carpet-for-citing-nonexistent-cases-to-support-end-of-ex-trump-fixers-supervised-release/
“They all seem to have been translated from Mandarin to English by someone who speaks neither language!”
Typed verbatim:
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Now that I look it over, it actually reads better here than it does on paper.
Sam: interesting. It looks like the Spacer algorithm has an off-by-one bug.
A couple of days ago I got a knock on the door and found a Polish guy who was looking for the address of a neighbour who was selling something. He didn’t speak much English but had a translation phone app which allowed us to communicate. It was the first time that I had come across one of these and thought that it was just amazing. Between us we managed to work out which house he wanted.