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by PoignardAzur 1842 days ago
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.