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Redditor finds heavy block of iron shavings inside cheap PSU, also appears to lack safety protections (www.tomshardware.com)
submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/technology
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[–] xkforce 47 points 11 months 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.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months 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

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago (3 children)

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

[–] TrickDacy 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] TrickDacy 3 points 11 months ago

Underpaid tech bloggers playing 4d chess

[–] Tattorack 3 points 11 months ago

Occam's razor says no to that.

[–] FrostyTrichs 3 points 11 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] -1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

There’s no point in doing that

[–] MotoAsh 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months 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?