Saddest excuse for journalism i've ever seen

Postel16

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Scrolling away @ work and I came across this gem of a beauty. I seriously hope this is just someone's idea of a joke.


I wouldn't call that site a news site, so I don't think it qualifies as journalism.
 
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Very much ai generated. Lots of meaningless details to make it seem like a real story, but nothing specific like player names or score

It reads like a poorly written sports piece, which most are anymore and so it is going to be hard to tell the difference in the future.
 
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Ah, yes, the fine sports journalist “Saraswathi” at partakegastropub dot com

I’m also sure Deion will be interested (and probably surprised) to know that his son “Shilo” plays for TCU. And even more surprised to discover TCU mounted an incredible comeback to win the game. During a cool fall afternoon in Boulder - which is quite a ways from a hot Fort Worth where they actually played.

This is definitely AI, and AI fan fiction at that.
 
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Scrolling away @ work and I came across this gem of a beauty. I seriously hope this is just someone's idea of a joke.


How did you find this? Doesn't seem like something a normal person just scrolling would stumble upon. Twitter?

And with it being so blatantly obvious AI fiction, why share it here? It has so many blatant false 'facts' that's it's CLEARLY not a real story..
 
Very much ai generated. Lots of meaningless details to make it seem like a real story, but nothing specific like player names or score

It reads like a poorly written sports piece, which most are anymore and so it is going to be hard to tell the difference in the future.
I saw a YouTube video about golf courses that was AI generated. It was awesome, as an awesomely bad. It was about golf courses in Kansas but it kept showing photos from a golf course in Tucson because it had the same name. Another course it showed had a massive mountain range which I don't think Kansas has one of those. One of the courses had palm trees that was definitely not in Tucson.

The best part is when it said one of the top ranked courses had an annual membership fee of $150. That was the cost for men's league.

This garbage is going to wreck popular websites. Misinformation was already a huge problem but now you can generate misinformation in massive quantities in just a few seconds... and as the AI improves, the harder it's going to be to tell.
 

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