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Redditor finds heavy block of iron shavings inside cheap PSU, also appears to lack safety protections (www.tomshardware.com)
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[–] xkforce@lemmy.world 44 points 2 years ago (2 children)

The sad thing is that it almost certainly isn't. The spelling mistakes that were made aren't characteristic of AI generated blurbs which means they paid someone to write this lol.

[–] BudgieMania@kbin.social 22 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Yeah this type of "thing in Reddit happens..." articles have been going on for a long time, ever since it took off. It's what drove me off traditional media and into reddit in the first place, so many articles were "Redditor does this" "Redditor discovers that" that I eventually was like fuck it why wouldn't I just go to the source of all of this lol

[–] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 0 points 2 years ago (3 children)

you can easily tell an LLM to sprinkle a couple typos or spelling mistakes into a text

[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Are you suggesting someone instructed an AI to write an article with typos? Wtf purpose would that serve?

[–] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

To get exactly this reaction "can't be ai, it has typos"

[–] Tattorack@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

Occam's razor says no to that.

[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

Underpaid tech bloggers playing 4d chess

[–] FrostyTrichs@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

"Write the article in the style of a junior high student" probably gets close enough to be believable, who needs an editor!

[–] Aatube@kbin.social -1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

There’s no point in doing that

[–] MotoAsh@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Yes there is. It clearly creates doubt as to whether it was generated. As exemplified by the discussion you're commenting to. Bold to come on and just ... say something already demonstrated as wrong...

Can you not even understand what's happening in front of your own face?