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I am person. Person needs sustenance. High probability of sustenance in this area. Highly recommended.
AI is finally advanced enough to do bits.
TBF, the soup kitchen i volunteered at back in the early 90s had really good food.
Oh just wait until you learn about all the miscategorizations that are lurking in Google Maps data. Want a nice seafood date for two? Head on down to the fish counter at your local Walmart! They categorized every business very generically and never made discrete tourism categories.
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This is the best summary I could come up with:
Here's what you shouldn't miss!," (archive here) the article extols the virtues of the Canadian city and recommends attending the Winterlude festival (which only takes place in February), visiting an Ottawa Senators game, and skating in "The World's Largest Naturallyfrozen Ice Rink" (sic).
3 destination on the list, Microsoft Travel suggests visiting the Ottawa Food Bank, likely drawn from a summary found online but capped with an unfortunate turn of phrase.
That last line is an example of the kind of empty platitude (or embarrassing mistaken summary) one can easily find in AI-generated writing, inserted thoughtlessly because the AI model behind the article cannot understand the context of what it is doing.
Microsoft partner OpenAI made waves with LLMs called GPT-3 in 2020 and GPT-4 in 2023, both of which can imitate human writing styles but have frequently been used for unsuitable tasks, according to critics.
First noticed by tech author Paris Marx on Bluesky, the post on the Ottawa Food Bank began to gain traction on social media late Thursday.
In response to Marx's post, frequent LLM critic Emily Bender noted, "I can't find anything on that page that marks it overtly as AI-generated.
I'm a bot and I'm open source!
We need to go deeper. Enhance!
MS unintentionally creating awareness, gotta love it. I hope this leads to an increase in donations. While Mr. Gates is busy pretending to be Saint of Africa, there's people starving on his doorstep.
Life is already difficult enough. Consider going into it on an empty stomach