• floofloof@lemmy.ca
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    2 days ago

    I don’t think it’s AI. It looks like bad human writing. An AI wouldn’t use clunky non-idiomatic phrases like this:

    He noted that the area of the pipe break is part of museum spaces that will undergo a major renovation…

    Also, A LLM would be unlikely to say a flood led to a burst pipe when it has lots of examples of writing where the causation is the other way round. A human having a brain fart might make that mistake though.

    I suspect this article was written in a hurry by someone whose English isn’t great.

    • Trigger2_2000@sh.itjust.works
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      1 day ago

      Good gravy! I was giving NBC at least a little credit for trying to do mediocre journalism.

      I know English is not everyone’s first (or even second) language, but if your job is writing for a living in English at least get some help.

      P.S. I only know one language myself and couldn’t read/write/speak/understand any other to save my soul, so I think people that can are really gifted. It’s just that NBC obviously didn’t care about this article in the least.

      • ranzispa@mander.xyz
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        14 hours ago

        Journalist could also not know how to write, but the editor should very much know how to read and not let these kinds of things pass.