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In the age of AI-spam, I now treat typos in webpages as a good sign (lemmy.ml)
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I used to think typos meant that the author (and/or editor) hadn't checked what they wrote, so the article was likely poor quality and less trustworthy. Now I'm reassured that it's a human behind it and not a glorified word-prediction algorithm.

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[–] Papergeist 16 points 1 year ago

I worked with a cook who had previously cooked in the military. He told me his boss would occasionally throw an entire egg into the powered eggs so people would think they were using real eggs. Don't know if that true or not, but moral of the story: don't trust the typos.