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by nemetroid 38 days ago
From the last image:

> No Type. No Distribution. No "Pie"-ing.

> Self-spacing. Self-justifying.

Looks machine-composed.
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cryzinger 38 days ago
If you mean machine-composed as in AI, I did a reverse image search and found the same image in a blog post from 2013:

https://kenjeffery.wordpress.com/2013/05/10/on-linotype-the-...

And to prove that the image wasn't tampered with recently, here's a Wayback Machine snapshot from 2019:

https://web.archive.org/web/20190823231938/https://kenjeffer...

I think it passes muster!

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nemetroid 34 days ago
Just poking fun - the ad is for a "composing machine", so the joke wrote itself.
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ripe 38 days ago
Ha, ha! I thought the same thing: LLM slop. But soon I remembered having seen this Linotype ad before. It's a genuine image. Almost 140 years ago, some human writer came up with short, punchy copy.

Look what these AI companies have done to us. We see the shadow of slop everywhere.

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ahartmetz 38 days ago
The poster didn't use "quietly", so I knew it wasn't slop! (Seriously, what's the deal with "quietly" in AI writing?)
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