Pakistani newspaper mistakenly prints AI prompt with the article

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!

Or they will set up one more AI automation:

"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.

Welcome to a post-scarcity world — as if we needed cheaper ways to create digital low-quality content in the hands of anyone, for free.

Not long after we invent a replicator machine the entire Earth is gonna be turned into paperclips.

I think better to put that someone extra further up in the pipeline who knows how to prompt the LLM correctly so that it doesn't generate the fluff to begin with.

Or get software engineers to produce domain specific tooling rather than the domain relying on generic tooling which lead to such mistakes (although this is speculation.. but still to me it seems like the author of that article was using the vanilla ChatGPT client)

/s I am now thinking of setting up an "AI Consultancy" which will be able to provide both these resources to those seeking such services. I mean, why have only one of those when both are available.

This mostly harms written journalism. As people seek humanness in their media, they'll be driven even more into the dens of cult-leaders masquerading as podcaster-journalists. The media environment is becoming so terminally awful, and each year it keeps getting worse, for decades now.

worse paid and less respected jobs, naturally

You know, there's joy in writing prose. Seems like people who are journalists shouldn't be journalists if they're not getting that fact.

Considering there’s lawyers risking their careers by using AI, I think the lesson here is that if you allow people to be lazy they will. Humans are built for efficiency.

If a beginner writer thinks AI can write a better article than they can, it seems like they’ll just rely on the AI and never hone their craft.