02-03-2024, 10:44 AM
I actually just noticed this a few days ago in a mainstream news article I read randomly at work, about a local sports dance team. There weren't any grammar errors but there were "industry" terms that one could maybe figure out with context clues. Human interest stories like these usually explain things that could confuse readers easily, which is why this article stuck out to me.
But more importantly the article used a lot of ambiguous language, or phrased things very strangely, like how "read" could be a present tense or past tense verb, or it could be even a noun ("that book was a good read," etc.). Things like that that a competent writer (not me, I make stupid mistakes all the time) would not make, or even a human editor or a program like Word or Grammarly raise a flag over.
The lack of explanation of dance terms and the confusing phrasing makes me think this could've been AI generated, despite there being a lot of quotes from the dancers in it. So this might be a different thing than what you're bringing up, Ed, but it's probably in the same ballpark.
But more importantly the article used a lot of ambiguous language, or phrased things very strangely, like how "read" could be a present tense or past tense verb, or it could be even a noun ("that book was a good read," etc.). Things like that that a competent writer (not me, I make stupid mistakes all the time) would not make, or even a human editor or a program like Word or Grammarly raise a flag over.
The lack of explanation of dance terms and the confusing phrasing makes me think this could've been AI generated, despite there being a lot of quotes from the dancers in it. So this might be a different thing than what you're bringing up, Ed, but it's probably in the same ballpark.