UK local papers go weird as Reach pivots to AI from journalism (pivot-to-ai.com)

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[-] jonpsp@mstdn.social 8 points 3 weeks ago

@dgerard and that's why Reach have loads of stories where they ingest the reviews from Trip Advisor, or try to get people to hate cyclists and pedestrians

[-] zbyte64@awful.systems 5 points 2 weeks ago

In one case the AI added irrelevant details about a place with the same name in a completely different location.

Reminder that LLMs are susceptible to red herrings.

this post was submitted on 04 Dec 2024

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