• Chozo@fedia.io
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    11 days ago

    “Young Chinese women have small fingers,” the article reads, “and that has made them a valuable contributor to iPhone production because they are more nimble at installing screws and other miniature parts in the small device, supply chain experts said.”

    This 100% reads like LLM output; it’s confidently wrong, isn’t using proper news copy syntax, and got weirdly vague as it trailed off (“the small device”).

    NYT is publishing AI articles.

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      11 days ago

      Wasn’t this also the argument for child labor? “Small children can fit into tight spaces easier, lets use them to unjam dangerous machinery”

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        The right watched snow piercer and needed therapy after see all the horrible things that the back of the train did to their betters.

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        Yes. For example I know in textiles especially, they were small enough to run under & between machines to get things without the factory having to them off. (Surprise surprise, guess how kids got maimed and/or killed…)

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        Probably scrapped articles with “labor in Asia” to get this spat out

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      Ah, NYT. Amongst all subscriptions that I have come across in my country, NYT is the most expensive. Since they haven’t heard of region specific pricing and just multiply by exchange rate; it’s only six times more expensive than YT Premium in India.

      Atleast I was under the belief that they had decent editorial standards but looks like that ship has sailed away as well.

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        Boss I hate to be the one to tell you, but this is exactly what their editorial standards have always been lol

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          Huh, didn’t realize that NYT was disliked from before only. I thought it was a decent American newspaper. The only other American newspaper I can think of is Washington Post, but that is so capitalist friendly to say the least.

          Among overseas newspapers, I had decent idea of UK based ones (looks and judges Sun readers :p) but not otherwise.

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      Yeah def what I was thinking. It’s strange that instead of admitting to this they’re just rolling with it saying it’s based off something they read.