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Re:Genie 4 by siva7 on Tuesday October 27, 2026 @01:55PM (#50263140)
I'm blessed to see that even google let their most important marketing prosa be generated by ai models without any proofreading from fleshy humans.
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Re:Genie 4 by sbrother on Tuesday October 27, 2026 @02:20PM (#50263505)
That isn't a mistake AI would make though -- it's something a human would accidentally do when replacing em dashes with hyphens
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Re:Genie 4 by fwip on Tuesday October 27, 2026 @04:17PM (#50265184)
Which they would do if the text was LLM-generated and they wanted to disguise that fact. Or have a vibe-coded script to do the same.
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Re:Genie 4 by chis on Tuesday October 27, 2026 @11:24PM (#50268987)
I'm sorry but this comment is idiotic on so many levels
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Re:Genie 4 by fwip on Wednesday October 28, 2026 @01:55PM (#50278004)
I mean, any way you slice it, writing 'audio-like music' prominently in your blog is amateur hour.
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Re:Genie 4 by strangegecko on Tuesday October 27, 2026 @02:57PM (#50264036)
It could have been a human trying to justify their existence. "no no, I wrote this ad copy myself: look, no em-dashes!".
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Re:Genie 4 by chis on Tuesday October 27, 2026 @11:23PM (#50268979)
Quite the reverse honestly, I found it really funny that they didn't bother to have an AI proofread it before sending out
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