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chrismorgan ◴[] 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. abdullahkhalids ◴[] No.45900787[source]
The newspaper in question is Pakistan's English language "newspaper of record", which has wide readership.

For some reason, they rarely ever add any graphs or tables to financial articles, which I have never understood. Their readership is all college educated. One time I read an Op-Ed, where the author wrote something like: If you go to this gov webpage, and take the data and put it on excel, and plot this thing vs that thing, you will see X trend.

Why would they not just take the excel graph, clean it up and put it in their article?

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2. IAmBroom ◴[] No.45900936[source]
Because it was BS opinion, dressed in scientifical sounding clothing?
3. pseudony ◴[] No.45902307[source]
Maybe the model just wasn’t multi-modal back then ;)