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by PoignardAzur 1842 days ago
Prompt: Emmanuel Macron

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Emmanuel Macron lors d’une allocution devant les électeurs de Bouches-du-Rhône, le 25 février 2017. BERTRAND LANGLOIS / AFP

Ils étaient jusqu’à quatre candidats à la présidence de la République à visiter le « 48 », ce quartier du centre-ville de Marseille, dans lequel un mouvement revendicatif a été mené depuis le début du mois de février et qui a été déclaré sinon complètement sécurisé, du moins relié d’une façade. Emmanuel Macron, François Fillon, Jean-Luc Mélenchon et Nicolas Dupont-Aignan, et avant eux Benoît Hamon, Marine Le Pen, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, Jean-Luc Bennahmias… Ils se sont retrouvés à la « Nouvelle République », la structure adossée au parvis de la préfecture, pour observer la police et écouter

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Some interesting points:

- The model notices that something talking about Emmanuel Macron is likely to be a french journal article, so it outputs in French language.

- The model decides that a sentence starting with "Emmanuel Macron" with no other context is likely to be the caption of a photo. At least that's how I interpret the first sentence.

- I checked and I don't "the 48" is a thing in Marseille. I could be wrong.

- The narrative of the text seems a little confused, but is roughly that presidential candidates are visiting Marseille after civil unrest has been quashed by police, and are talking to the police? Accurate details: the date is february 2017, which is campaigning season; Marseille is indeed in Bouches-du-Rhône; people mentioned were presidential candidates, except for Jean-Luc Bennahmias (didn't even know who he was until now). Major plot hole: why would rival presidential candidates meet each other, and speak with the police together, while campaigning?

- Small incoherences that hints at a lack of object permanence: the beginning mentions "up to 4 candidates", the end mentions 7. Mélenchon is mentioned twice (too bad it didn't pick Macron twice instead, there would have been political jokes to make).

- I love that the first sentence ends with "[Journalist name] / AFP". Agence France Presse is the french equivalent of Associated Press, and basically the source of all mainstream news in France. Mainstream journals mostly repackage AFP content for public consumption (which, honestly, probably means they're going to get hit hard by the coming wave of text AI). The fact that the model includes it kind of feels like these image GANs that learn to produce watermarks on the images they generate.

Translation:

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Emmanuel Macron during an address to voters in Bouches-du-Rhône, February 25, 2017. BERTRAND LANGLOIS / AFP

They were up to four candidates for the presidency of the Republic to visit the "48", this district of downtown Marseille, in which a protest movement has been conducted since the beginning of February and which has been declared if not completely secure, at least connected with a front. Emmanuel Macron, François Fillon, Jean-Luc Mélenchon and Nicolas Dupont-Aignan, and before them Benoît Hamon, Marine Le Pen, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, Jean-Luc Bennahmias... They met at the "Nouvelle République", the structure next to the square of the prefecture, to observe the police and listen

(translation courtesy of DeepL, with tweaks)