• YoiksAndAway@piefed.zip
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    2 days ago

    When asked to respond to the president’s call for parents to possibly limit doll purchases when approached while returning to his orifice. Senator Josh Hawley of Missouri, a fellow Republican who has a 5-year-old daughter, quipped that he wished someone would say the same to her.

    Appropriately funny typo, but the punctuation is fucked up, too. Does anyone proofread these pieces?

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        Yeah, this seems to me like talk to text. Punctuation usually shit, and orifice office is just an accent problem.

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          Autocorrect, I’d assume. “Office” doesn’t sound much like “orifice,” but it would be easy to swipe-type it the wrong way.

          But either way, yeah.

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            Bergen County, NJ, likes to put Rs in where they don’t belong, and orifice is absolutely a way I’ve heard people say office. And swiping an article is odd to me, but I’ve written zero articles so I don’t know.

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              I am also not a journalist, but if you’re filing articles from the field, it could make a lot of sense that you might just do it on your phone from a gaudy bathroom in the White House or something rather than needing to pull out a laptop somewhere. Back in the 70s, reporters on location would call their stories in and have them typed; this could be a pretty good modern analogue, maybe?

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        Um, Will Smith eating spaghetti would like to have a word.

        Chatgpt also gives inane output occasionally. All this means is if they used AI, it wasn’t proofread before posting it. There’s a few LLMs that could be used for writing articles, and all of them are flawed.

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          AI effectively never makes word substitutions by close spelling. It can be quite stupid, but not in the way I’m describing.