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Pakistani newspaper mistakenly prints AI prompt with the article

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443 points wg0 | 9 comments | 12 Nov 25 11:17 UTC | HN request time: 0.002s | source | bottom
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chrismorgan ◴[12 Nov 25 12:05 UTC] No.45899143[source]▶
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.

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1. wg0 ◴[12 Nov 25 12:19 UTC] No.45899255[source]▶
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.

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2. nashashmi ◴[12 Nov 25 12:54 UTC] No.45899554[source]▶
It might be better to mention “Dawn newspaper” instead of “Pakistani newspaper”.
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3. nomdep ◴[12 Nov 25 14:00 UTC] No.45900269[source]▶
Only Pakistanis knew from where the Dawn newspaper is, so the current title is more informative
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4. rat9988 ◴[12 Nov 25 15:10 UTC] No.45901165{3}[source]▶
It doesn't matter much in which country it is located actually. It also provides less information.
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5. mh- ◴[12 Nov 25 16:19 UTC] No.45902017{4}[source]▶
How does including the country of origin provide less information than omitting it?
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6. wg0 ◴[12 Nov 25 17:40 UTC] No.45903127[source]▶
Nobody outside Pakistan knows Dawn even though it is the newspaper that was founded by Muhammad Ali Jinnah (considered founding father of the nation) and one of the largest and most prestigious as well.
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7. nashashmi ◴[12 Nov 25 18:17 UTC] No.45903676{3}[source]▶
It is like the NYT for the country. But the relevant detail here is the printing of the prompt in a nationally recognized newspaper. The brand, as local as it maybe, still provides more context than some random newspaper in a foreign country would.

And I have ran into Dawn newspaper on google news frontpage several times, usually on entertainment stuff.

8. nashashmi ◴[12 Nov 25 18:19 UTC] No.45903727{5}[source]▶
Does omitting the brand provide more information? Newspaper brand is more relevant than the country.
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