By Pepper Parr
November 26th, 2024
BURLINGTON, ON
The only thing media has going for it – is that the readers trust what you are saying.
We are the guy on the left.
Now that Artificial Intelligence (AI) can be used – how does a reader know that a real live person wrote the article?
The Gazette does not use Artificial Intelligence when creating content. Two reasons why: We think our readers expect us to do the work that is needed to create the news and comments we deliver. The other reason is – we don’t know how to use the stuff and don’t have the time to figure it out
With the position that artificial intelligence (AI) cannot generate authentically Canadian content, the Writers Guild of Canada put AI to the test to see what ‘improvements’ AI could make to some of Canada’s most iconic film and television lines.
Given the simple instructions to ‘improve this line,’ or ‘word this line differently to have the same meaning but be more entertaining,’ ChatGPT was given a host of iconic Canadian lines from film and tv, with the following (bad) results:
AI doesn’t speak Canadian – wonder how it would handle Eh!
Fubar: “Turn up the good, turn down the suck”, Freeland Improvement: Vibecession is a neologism that refers to a disconnect between the economy of a country and the general public’s negative perception of it. The term was coined by Kyla Scanlon in a June 2022 newsletter about Americans’ view of their economy. It is a portmanteau of the words ‘vibes’ and ‘recession’.