It’s like saying “in bed” after reading any fortune cookie

“As the spread of the coronavirus disease continues”, good for any sentence!

The news biz has its own version of SEO, keyed mainly off of article titles but also to a lesser extent off of image titles. Both of those are selected by the editor, not the reporter. The main difference is that they aren't optimizing for search engines.

There were tons of cases of this weird "article/photo title is trying way too hard to spin this story while the text is pretty neutral and unbiased" during election season.

It also shows up in the tendency to insert the prefix "Commentary:" in the title of any article noting any negative facts about a certain particular country. The WSJ is particularly hilarious in this respect.

The caption is search spam. SEO is a thing for stock art.

The picture was taken and captioned last March: https://www.reuters.com/search/pictures?blob=Tenaska+Imperia...

This article just uses it without any changes.

The caption would have been somewhat less strange at that point (but still hard to contextualize).

Edit: Oops, the earliest date is June 2020. Doesn't really change the explanation any though.

Perhaps there are 5G radios in the vicinity.

I guess it was the AI built on Rust and hosted on Lambda that wrote this caption

It looks like my latest Factorio biuld is bleeding into this reality again.

You're playing with a COVID mod for Factorio? :O

... that sounds pretty cool actually, though I'm not sure how it would work. The main character of the game is pretty good at social distancing already.

Where are the damn drones that install them onto my roof?!

Hopefully someone has some spare paracetamol tablets

Gaming SEO maybe?

Written by AI?

With a side dish of "appeasing the algorithmic overlords".