> 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.
By "AI prompt" I mean "prompted by AI"
Edit: Note about prompt's nature.
https://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/unternehmen/deutsche-bahn-...
> Entgegen unseren Standards
“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…”
A solution is to put someone extra into the workflow to check the final result. This way AI will actually make more jobs. Ha!
"This article will be posted on our prestigious news site. Our readers don't know that most of our content is AI slop that our 'writers' didn't even glance over once, so please check if you find anything that was left over from the LLM conversation and should not be left in the article. If you find anything that shouldn't stay in the article, please remove it. Don't say 'done' and don't add your own notes or comment, don't start a conversation with me, just return the cleaned up article."
And someone will put "Prompt Engineer" in their resume.
Not long after we invent a replicator machine the entire Earth is gonna be turned into paperclips.
At my work place, non native speakers would send me documents for grammatical corrections. They don’t do that anymore! Hoorah!
(Or Nitter where the image is mirrored too - VPNs potentially unsupported:)
FatalLogic•1h ago
"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•1h ago
That's a good example of when you shouldn't use passive voice.
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