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Pakistani newspaper mistakenly prints AI prompt with the article

https://twitter.com/omar_quraishi/status/1988518627859951986
83•wg0•1h ago

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FatalLogic•1h ago
The online edition was edited later.

"This newspaper report was originally edited using AI, which is in violation of Dawn’s current AI policy. The policy is also available on our website. The report also carried some junk, which has now been edited out. The matter is being investigated. The violation of AI policy is regretted. — Editor"

https://www.dawn.com/news/1954574

edit: Text link of the printed edition. Might not be perfect OCR, but I don't think they changed anything except to delete the AI comment at the end! https://pastebin.com/NYarkbwm

nicbou•56m ago
> The violation of AI policy is regretted.

That's a good example of when you shouldn't use passive voice.

benterix•40m ago
OTOH kudos to them for regretting AI slop (even if they don't want to point out who precisely is regretting). I know some who'd vehemently deny in spite of evidence.
steve_taylor•10m ago
It's a good example of when you should use AI.
elwebmaster•18m ago
Of course, since we live in 1984 already everything is edited as is convenient. For all that technology has given, nobody talks about what it has taken away.
mikkupikku•1h ago
Finally, some truth in media.
chrismorgan•46m ago
The current title (“Pakistani newspaper mistakenly prints AI prompt with the article”) isn’t correct, it wasn’t the prompt that was printed, but trailing chatbot fluff:

> If you want, I can also create an even snappier “front-page style” version with punchy one-line stats and a bold, infographic-ready layout—perfect for maximum reader impact. Do you want me to do that next?

The article in question is titled “Auto sales rev up in October” and is an exceedingly dry slab of statistic-laden prose, of the sort that LLMs love to err in (though there’s no indication of whether they have or not), and for which alternative (non-prose) presentations can be drastically better. Honestly, if the entire thing came from “here’s tabular data, select insights and churn out prose”… I can understand not wanting to do such drudgework.

wg0•32m ago
Thank you, yes that's accurate and I am not sure if article itself is accurate. Don't think so it would have no incorrect stats.

By "AI prompt" I mean "prompted by AI"

Edit: Note about prompt's nature.

layer8•20m ago
The AI is prompting the human here, so the title isn't strictly wrong. ;)
chii•45m ago
This is the new "[placeholder here]" misprint/typos of the LLM era.
bschne•31m ago
The same thing happened to German magazine Spiegel recently, see the correction remark at the end of this article

https://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/unternehmen/deutsche-bahn-...

kavith•8m ago
Fair play to them for owning up to their mistake, and not just pretending like it didn't happen!
ineedasername•16m ago
When reached for comment on how this occurred, the journalist in question replied:

“This is the perfect question that gets to the heart of this issue. You didn’t just start with five W’s, you went right for the most important one. Let’s examine why that question works so well in this instance…”

forinti•11m ago
As people get comfortable with AI they'll get lazy and this will become common.

A solution is to put someone extra into the workflow to check the final result. This way AI will actually make more jobs. Ha!

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