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by encodedrose 733 days ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CIEVrBLmF70

I was curious to see if there was a video of it being done and this seems to be it. Incredibly delicate is an understatement.

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Thank you for looking it up!

Is there a name for the practice of embedding a completely unrelated video into the middle of an article? I find this practice to be so mystifying. Does that work on readers?

Maybe it was written by an AI. I'm serious. That a human would leave out that crucial component is indeed boggling.

An AI. Writing and publishing a stream of mid-quality articles. With ads inserted. Profit. Occasionally insane.

Here's a strange quote from it:

> In the early 1800s, it was introduced to the Netherlands and France, where it ... became a hit with Elizabeth I, among other royals

Elizabeth I was English and died in 1603. Two centuries before the 1800s. I am suspicious of AI for this article too.

Nearly every place that has writers on staff for any purpose is trying to have 1/4 as many (at most) just edit AI output.

The way they tune productivity is deliberately reducing quality of the editing. I’m not kidding.

Thanks, it beggars belief that they could publish the article without such substantial piece of information.
Those vanilla plants can go fuck themselves. But seriously