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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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michaelbuckbee ◴[] No.45899711[source]
For years, both the financial and sports news sides of things have generated increasingly templated "articles", this just feels like the latest iteration.
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1. mlmonkey ◴[] No.45901990[source]
In the mid-late naughts, there used to be a content farm called "Associated Content". They would get daily lists of top searched terms from various search engines (Yahoo, Dogpile, Altavista, etc. etc.) and for each search term, pay an English major to write a 2-page fluff article. Regardless of what the topic was, they churned out articles by the bushel. Then they place ads on these articles and sat back and watched the dollars roll in.