Frank Sonderborg
Read this interesting story on the BBC, and it reads like one of the AI Facebook constructed stories I see all the time.
It does not mention ai and it does have a journalist name attached. Have we arrived at a place where journalists are apeing ai. Or am I just hallucinating;+)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/czrekvml0p6o
Samay Raina's Still Alive: A moving second act of the 'cancelled' Indian comic

A misfired joke nearly derailed Samay Raina’s comedy career. Now he’s back, reclaiming his voice.

Apr 11 at 7:47amWeb
Show threadFardels Bear1d ago

@FSonder

I didn't get a whiff of #AIBinJuice from this, just a well-written story. I'm not on FB so I don't know what the quality of their stories is like. It does link back to an earlier event that has worrying implications for censorship and free speech in India.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvg4g8q51xdo

India's Got Latent: Ranveer Allahbadia's 'dirty' comments spark massive row in India

Remarks made by popular YouTuber Ranveer Allahbadia on a talent show have led to a huge controversy.

BBC News
Show threadFrank Sonderborg1d ago
@riggbeck Maybe it's just me. I felt the flow of the story was in a very heroic FB style. The BBC does use ai to help editing it's stories. But they usually add an, AI helped me, note at the end.
Show thread⁂ Fish Id Wardrobe1d ago

@FSonder it's not just you. to me it reads as if someone filled in the gaps in a cunningly-constructed "mad libs". i suppose the writer could have just used a template?

But to me there's no sense of narrative structure.

Show threadHavoc BSc MSc 💚1d ago
@fishidwardrobe @FSonder I recently read an article about ESL writers being flagged as AI. Because AI has been trained on mainly "Queens English" texts, anyone writing in that strict style reads like AI (eg plethora of joining words, adverbs etc). I personally don't like the style, it reads like a GCSE essay to me, way too wordy. However many have been rigidly trained to write that way
Show thread⁂ Fish Id Wardrobe1d ago

@Havoc_online @FSonder agreed. this isn't really that, it's just that each paragraph flows very nicely from point to point, but those points don't lead you anywhere much.

of course this might just be a sign that the writer is spinning out what should have been two paragraphs into a whole article.

Show threadHavoc BSc MSc 💚1d ago
@fishidwardrobe @FSonder tbh thats what I felt - filling out to reach that essay word count!