Al SweigartThe people who use AI to write for them don't even read the stuff they don't write.
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Albert CardonaThis prompt ended up in a textbook? Somebody got paid for this, and perhaps even someone else got paid to edit it?
Father Hardstone@albertcardona @AlSweigart This textbook is probably from #india (I am going by the names and phone numbers provided in the table)
I have seen similar things happening in #pakistan where a top #english #newspaper the daily DAWN published something in the newspaper where the report carried the AI generated text 
I haven't seen something like this here in textbooks but I can expect this happening here as well !
PS. Most school textbooks have this kind of cringy typesetting here in 🇵🇰 🇮🇳
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Alexander The 1st@CStamp @harib_murshidi @albertcardona @AlSweigart Only at the end of the articles.
Does go to show that with LLMs, the warnings come after the "spells".
🐧DaveNull🐧 ☣️pResident Evil☣@harib_murshidi Ah yes because white people dont make profits from fAIl slop, selling crap they didn't write… Your point being?
@devnull @albertcardona @AlSweigart Wait, what ... 
I didn't say that, I pointed out towards a general trend here in this part of the world 🇵🇰 🇮🇳
I am not white, 
and I think this has been happening in the US and Europe as well
Olivier Leroy@AlSweigart name and shame (at least I want to avoid those authors..)
Ted Mielczarek@AlSweigart if they can't be bothered to write it why would anyone bother to read it?
@tedmielczarek @AlSweigart Importantly, if they themselves wouldn't read what they claim to have written, why should anyone else?
Glyph@AlSweigart the fact that this is physically on paper really feels like a final insult
Mario Munoz@glyph @AlSweigart I feel like they really tried to automate the boring stuff of... writing? 😅 🥁
(Al vs AI... First round. FIGHT!)
@glyph Oh, but if you want one more insult:
ChatGPT would have caught this.
They didn't even bother to have AI edit their book.
Liberté/Egalité/CLT 
@AlSweigart @glyph it's the absolutely lowest effort possible
Alexander Knochel@glyph @AlSweigart Trees died for this... twice
@AlSweigart Hey if I have to read it in the end I might as well write it :))
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Colin H.@futurebird @AlSweigart According to some Reddit threads, it's a Nepali schoolbook. Apparently.
Also there are plenty of responses that actually this is fine, because human-authored textbooks are overpriced and terrible anyway. I mean maybe cheap (assumed) and rubbish is better than expensive and rubbish, but I can still think of a much better outcome.
jimfl@AlSweigart I am revising my opinions about when it becomes reasonable to burn books
Jaime Herazo@AlSweigart
No, no, recycle them, more environmentally responsible
@jherazob @AlSweigart Book Pulpings! I love this idea so much.
DaveKaz@jimfl @jherazob @AlSweigart In Piotr Szulkin’s O-bi, O-Ba: The End of Civilization, pulping is how they get rid of books then they feed it to the undesirables.
markc568@AlSweigart The typesetting on this is complete garbage as well. Someone just copied/pasted all of this and called it good.
Of course when your end user is required to purchase your product, it probably doesn’t matter if it’s totally shit.
Ulrike Walter-Lipow@AlSweigart Well, as I always say: why read something that no-one cared enough to write?
derptron@crazyeddie Applies all the same - text books for schools should be developed and written with care - otherwise its best to ignore them ... @AlSweigart
HTMHelen Fernanda@AlSweigart Livro de papel interativo. É só perguntar que ele responde pra você.
Erwin@AlSweigart i just imagined the betrayal I'd feel if I went out of my way to buy a physical textbook, start reading it expecting to learning something that was written there by a fellow human being who was as excited to write all this...
...only to learn nothing I've read meant anything. It was all hallucinations. I'd be so angry and disappointed.
Frank Heijkamp@AlSweigart
Text not worth writing are texts not worth reading.
Text not worth writing are texts not worth reading.
tribactam@alterelefant @AlSweigart
exactly - "if you couldn't be bothered to write it, why should I be bothered to read it."
exactly - "if you couldn't be bothered to write it, why should I be bothered to read it."
Carina C. Zona@AlSweigart so no one researched it, no one wrote it, no one copyedited it, and no one reviewed it. Let me guess: $50?
ROTOPE~1 ⭐️@cczona college textbook, $300. As a bonus, the AI can re-churn a new edition every single semester. Goodbye, used books!
neutronstar@rotopenguin @cczona
Reading this I for one think of the environmental impact of printing this same garbage every year. And on top of that we now place the environmental impact of using writing this very garbage using ai…
And then, on top of that, some poor student probably went into debt to buy this very garbage. Then realise that the information in this book isn’t even the same as what you can find online, but probably even worse!
I’m at a loss of words…
@neutronstar @rotopenguin @cczona
actually, this is the established model in the school system in Italy. Every year, every text book, a new edition. Little if any new content but certainly a new price. And this was before AI. Now it will just be turbocharged.
The only thing is that there are limits set by the ministry of education but the problem remains.
Jari Komppa 🇫🇮@neutronstar @tribactam @rotopenguin @cczona
Schools used to re-use books, so publishers invented this process to make more money.
Schools used to re-use books, so publishers invented this process to make more money.
Ighostrider@AlSweigart Bring back hooman proofreading I say! I used to proofread and typeset scientific papers and textbooks, we would get charged a whole £1 per mistake that we had missed, including even for one lowly comma. One company we worked for moved to China and India and paid the workers there next to nothing. We gave up as freelancers soon after this. Took me years to come to terms with the fact that everything I bought or touched had text with glaring mistakes! Now, however I don't give a fuck
@AlSweigart I once found an article on the front page of a printed newspaper that began "scroll down for an interactive map"
kΔ@nerpulus @AlSweigart Did you try it though!? Maybe it would have worked! Did you try it!? 🤪
mthie@AlSweigart Now there’s only ONE rule: Don’t buy books written after 2021.
Nini@mthie @AlSweigart Which is a good principle as long as the non-fiction book you're buying isn't subject to changing anytime soon so that excludes most science books, some mathematical books and quite a lot of computing books. STEM kids are going to be fucked by this.
fedithom@AlSweigart That seems oddly par for the course.
Gildilinie Gremlin 🏳️⚧️@AlSweigart that's right
V@AlSweigart ... And somehow, a lot of the software industry is convinced they're special and different and will actually read it and understand it and not miss stuff like this...
Nine Stones Close@AlSweigart refund required as well as name and shame.
@AlSweigart You expect too much attention to detail from people willing to let the LLM slop out something, they've already yelled "Claude, take the wheel" and proofing what they copypasted is beyond their concern.
Wartezimmer@AlSweigart
Please name title and author.
Please name title and author.
Oggie@AlSweigart
This is going to get so funny when they hard pivot to explicit advertisements in these things.
This is going to get so funny when they hard pivot to explicit advertisements in these things.
notthatkindofdoctor@AlSweigart
Does that book have a copyright? Because it shouldn't.
Does that book have a copyright? Because it shouldn't.
George Liquor, American@AlSweigart ID the book. Name and shame. That's a no-brainer.
Caio C. G. Oliveira@liquor_american @AlSweigart Yes, please... People need to be warned and avoid buying stuff like this.
a reproach of men and despised among the people@AlSweigart i can't imagine any of them bothering to read that
like i don't even read what i actually writes
like i don't even read what i actually writes
kit@AlSweigart
That was true before AI. The irritation of being asked to comment on the consultant's report that was verbatim the draft I'd asked them for input on was palpable, and embarrassing for the grammatical and spelling errors that I'd not noticed when I wrote it.
It was ever thus. The company only believes you when they pay someone else to tell them, and don't need to understand it, or even read what you wrote.
Captain Salem@AlSweigart We have successfully renamed SQL to SLOPQL.
MeaningfulBits@AlSweigart name and shame the text book.