It occurred to the pond that today would usually be the day that the pond recorded for the nth time prattling Polonius scribbling that the ABC was a conservative-free zone, raising the question in the pond's mind if a bug in the Polonial AI had resulted in the incessant repetition.
The bug is observable, and was noted in Crikey by Cam Wilson in News Corp’s AI-generated stories are filled with mistakes, formatting problems and bizarre language. (paywall)
...A Crikey review of content published by News Corp on its mastheads by its Data Local team found these articles frequently contain errors, despite the company’s claim that journalists are still responsible for the editing process.
Some of the errors are outright factual mistakes. For example, The Daily Telegraph’s August 10 “Parramatta traffic: Crashes, delays, updates”, published at 3.15pm and archived by Crikey at 3.48pm shows traffic alerts listed in the future, like an incident recorded at 4.14pm on Olympic Drive near Bridge Street.
Other errors involve formatting issues. For example, in at least 16 traffic articles published for various NSW regions for The Daily Telegraph today, all of them feature the text “Notavailable(NotAvailable)” sprinkled several times between the listed traffic incidents, seemingly an artefact from their code. The Courier-Mail’s generated articles on the state’s premier league soccer results refer to the leagues as “McDonald’s FQPL Men_” and “McDonald’s FQPL Women_”.
Some of the articles include unconventional or unwieldy language. Automated weather articles use abbreviations like “Today’s forecast is mostly sunny; n’ly winds tending fresh nw”. Lists of daily remote VCAT appearances are given a grammatically incorrect title “Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal (VCAT) hearings in Videoconference for Thursday, August 10” (a headline format seemingly designed for hearings that take place in various real-world locations like Melbourne).
A News Corp Australia spokesperson defended the Data Local team’s output when presented with examples of the errors, calling Crikey’s inquiries “confused, wrong and not reflecting any reality”...
Some of the errors are outright factual mistakes. For example, The Daily Telegraph’s August 10 “Parramatta traffic: Crashes, delays, updates”, published at 3.15pm and archived by Crikey at 3.48pm shows traffic alerts listed in the future, like an incident recorded at 4.14pm on Olympic Drive near Bridge Street.
Other errors involve formatting issues. For example, in at least 16 traffic articles published for various NSW regions for The Daily Telegraph today, all of them feature the text “Notavailable(NotAvailable)” sprinkled several times between the listed traffic incidents, seemingly an artefact from their code. The Courier-Mail’s generated articles on the state’s premier league soccer results refer to the leagues as “McDonald’s FQPL Men_” and “McDonald’s FQPL Women_”.
Some of the articles include unconventional or unwieldy language. Automated weather articles use abbreviations like “Today’s forecast is mostly sunny; n’ly winds tending fresh nw”. Lists of daily remote VCAT appearances are given a grammatically incorrect title “Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal (VCAT) hearings in Videoconference for Thursday, August 10” (a headline format seemingly designed for hearings that take place in various real-world locations like Melbourne).
A News Corp Australia spokesperson defended the Data Local team’s output when presented with examples of the errors, calling Crikey’s inquiries “confused, wrong and not reflecting any reality”...
That's when the pond achieved enlightenment.
"Not reflecting any reality" clearly meant reptile reality ... and Polonius was scribbling in a reptile reality completely incomprehensible to the pond.
The pond did wonder if Polonius, in his standard rant about the ABC - the pond guesses that Polonius had done a weekend rant, and that the ABC was mentioned, but frankly the pond is on holyday and it's too tedious to go there - had noted the ABC show The secret children of the Catholic church.
After all, it's on RN and Polonius has a particular phobia about RN.
Probably not. A show about priests fornicating like rabbits and leaving a world strewn with children and bewildered adults isn't likely to be to his taste ...
Meanwhile, the pond's tour of Melbourne highlights continues, and yesterday there was a demonstration outside parliament.
The pond was most disappointed that it wasn't the usual assembly of cookers - apparently that's usually scheduled for today - and instead there was a bunch of deviants clearly at one with socialist radicalism, pretending that there might be something going wrong with the planet. These benighted ones clearly had never read the expert climate science denialism featured on a daily basis in the lizard Oz...
The pond thought of stopping to explain to everyone how simple it would be - we'd just have to nuke the country to save the planet, and it would all be fixed by 2030, and in the interim, we could keep digging up coal and shipping gas without a care in the world ... but decided discretion was the wiser course, and drove on ...
Meanwhile, the pond can report that it seems there's a growing consensus that it should be end times for comrade Dan, and that he should hand on the baton, if perhaps not in quite the same dramatic style as WA warrior Mark McGowan, but sooner than later.
The pond resisted the notion. What would the reptiles do? How could they keep on demonising Melbourne if comrade Dan was gone? Wouldn't someone think of the lizard Oz? But no, there was a need for a handover, so that the state could continue for another thousand years as a socialist paradise ...
The pond spotted other disturbing signs that all was strangely well in Melbourne socialist hell. Out and about last night looking for a restaurant, the pond noticed hordes of younglings queued around the block, just to get a meal at a trendy Nana Thai Style hotpot and some joint going by the name Hakata Gensuke, apparently oblivious to reptile notions that the town was a a disaster area.
The pond would have just put it down to the vulgar appetites of vulgar youff, but other restaurants showed signs of a state of siege by hungry patrons eager to drop a buck or three on food, and the pond had to settle for a restaurant where there was only a queue of a dozen or so ...
Evidence that the pond attended a restaurant, and managed, with a struggle to get a seat, though the traffic was heavy...
The meal was no match for the pond's favourite Surry Hills joint, Spice I Am, with a decided lack of spice, but that just reminded the pond how the reptiles worked in Sydney's 'leet area surrounded by the world's best baristas ...
Over the meal the pond discussed other disturbing signs that Melbourne wasn't quite as portrayed by the reptiles.
As well as there being much activity in the CBD, the pond was moved by the way Melburnians dress in winter.
There are, of course, the lumpenproletariat, and bogans, and it's easy to spot swarming football lovers by their peculiar dress codes, scarves and beanies, and the like, weird cultists off to worship at the temple on a weekend, but for all of that, Melburnians take winters seriously.
Black is always in fashion, and women favour coats and boots, while men also dress in black coats, and the overall impression is a Henry Bucks/Max Mara sense of style. In Sydney everyone dresses like they're a Bra boy or girl fresh from stomping at Maroubra or Bondi beach. Sure the eastern suburbs might try to pass for Melbourne, but the weather generally doesn't allow it ...
There's a sumptuousness about goth Melbourne dress, just as there's a desire to eat out, whatever the temperature.
And then there's the street decor. Sydney has taken to aping Melbourne, but Melbourne always has some irritating bit of street art tucked away in a corner, with affectations to surrealism and doggie culture ...
Then there's the graffiti ... Sydney has attempted to set aside lanes, but Melbourne has laneways dedicated to restaurants and graffiti, and memories of the lanes being home to pimps, prostitutes and pubs are as distant as memories in its origin days when it was a primordial swamp with buggies and carts buried up to the axle ... (anyone wanting to remember those days of bog swamp should read Georgiana McCrae's Journal: On the north, the occupied part of the settlement began to thin away towards Lonsdale Street, and, six blocks south, wilted again to Flinders Street. Here a few houses stayed fastened to the first firm ground emergent from the river; beyond them, all was bog, a number of planks set end to end showing the way to the punt ...)
There's still a festering swamp of back street images ...
And that's the latest from the hellhole of socialist Melbourne, and the pond supposes that it should at least attempt one serious note, and this came in from Killer Kreighton about Kovid ...
Oh sorry, it wasn't from Killer, it was from Killer's barking mad kissing cousin talking on Faux Noise, home of the reptile hive mind ... and with that the pond must sign off early in its Melbourne missive, with the infallible Pope providing a note on the reptiles' desire to nuke the country to save the planet ...
Why is it that cartoonists have more sense than gnats, reptiles, the mutton Dutton and Sussssan?
Why not another?
How about another, in memory of the days when the pond would indulge in a Sunday cartoon madness?
Talking about the CBA, here's some words about that other famous miscreant, Killer Keating:
ReplyDeleteMichael Pascoe: Paul Keating’s very big and expensive privatisation mistake
https://thenewdaily.com.au/finance/2023/08/12/keating-commonwealth-bank-pascoe/
So now we know why the reptiles are claiming Keating as one of their own: privatising the Commonwealth Bank and selling off the media to Roopie.
Dorothy - did you have to engage private security to venture out for a meal?
ReplyDeleteReminder - https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/melbourne-people-scared-to-go-out-at-night-dutton-on-african-gangs/gh24viz7k
Actually, things are starting to get a bit that way, Chad. Not enough by a long way to keep most of us at home and off the streets though; it seems like it's mostly 13 through 16 yo kids attacking 13 through 16 yo kids. Though a few adults have been picked on too.
DeleteOh, they're starting to get older already:
DeleteMan fights for life after strip club triple-stabbing
https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/man-fights-for-life-after-strip-club-triple-stabbing-20230813-p5dw3o.html
More white bread in sight than you could imagine Chadders ... and more likely to be mugged by a map-clutching tourist demanding answers than anything else - it's a bloody grid, for gawd's sake ...
DeleteTalk of you going queues always makes me thing of Soi 38. Was it there you landed?
ReplyDeleteIt’s always been a wonderful contradiction to stand reading the Reptiles ranting about dead Melbourne while being unable to get into anywhere cause they’re all full to the gunwhales with happy campers.
It was Isan Soul Thai Street Food, VC, and it was a full house, and the only reason we jumped the queue is that a table for two became available. Bigger parties had to wait, and what a shame Dame Groan and the craven Craven weren't in a big party of reptiles trying to get a table ...
Deletehttps://www.tripadvisor.com/Restaurant_Review-g255100-d15535379-Reviews-Isan_Soul_Thai_Street_Food-Melbourne_Victoria.html
'Street food' is very much an in thing these days - especially Asian street food (did the Anglos ever really have 'street food' ?). Pity I hardly ever get to the CBD nowadays - maybe 4 or 5 times a year at most - or I'd definitely give Isan Soul a go.
DeleteGB thank you for the referral to that article. This was at a time when were told that government was the problem not the solution and we have been sucked in by the right wing nuts to believe them by the likes of the Murdoch media who as Michael Pascoe wrote was a big mistake in allowing Murdoch to purchase the Sun Herald who bend over backwards to say Labor bad Liberal good. There should be a royal commission into Murdoch media.
ReplyDeleteYeah, Anony; though I think what I'd be saying is "Keating arrogant libertarian and never Labor". Not a brain in his skull, that one. Not much of any in Hawke's noggin either.
DeleteLife certain does become more serene the longer one avoids the Reptiles. I considered a quick peek at the Oz homepage to at least see what Polonius was droning on about this weekend, it then I thought - why bother? It’s sure to be another whinge about some action or inaction by the conservative-free ABC, a complain about some perceived slight against the Catholic Church, revisiting a long-forgotten (except by Hendo) ideological stouthearted from the 1950s or, most likely, elements of all three. Better to devote the otherwise-lost time to something more useful and enjoyable- ie, pretty much anything.
ReplyDeleteThe thing with many of them - especially NewsCorpse "contributors" - is whether they ever wake up that nobody is really paying them any attention whatsoever. Especially now that we know they are all just the error-prone AIs that we took them for.
Delete"we'd just have to nuke the country to save the planet, and it would all be fixed by 2030". Nukes still Under (propaganda) Construction in 2030.
ReplyDeleteOh so now he tells us:
ReplyDeleteRBA governor Philip Lowe says there could be better ways to manage inflation
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-08-13/philip-lowe-says-there-could-be-better-ways-to-manage-inflation/102722798
Does he mean that there might just be ways that actually work without adding on a new interest rate hike every month that won't actually have any effect until at least a year later ... and that we're still waiting for several to even begin to have any effect at all ?
Yeah, so Phil, wait until you've been sacked and then drop that on us.
Ah, now here's a place which could really benefit from a decade or so of Phil now that he isn't RBA boss any longer:
DeleteArgentina and Australia once had eerily similar economies. How did one end up with 100 per cent inflation?
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-08-13/how-did-argentina-end-up-with-100-per-cent-inflation-/102707204
"US dollars flooded into Australia, making everyone very rich and happy, but this made the cost of living go up by 25 per cent in a year.
The treasurer — a Barnaby Joyce-esque figure named Artie Fadden — wasn't going to cop this.
He raised income taxes by a third, making himself very unpopular, and Australians very angry.
The treasurer called it responsible; the papers called him a gangster. But it did the job and inflation ground to a halt.
Argentina didn't tax people like Australia did, and this is a key reason the two economies are so different today."
See, it's really very easy to end runaway inflation, and Australia has shown the world how. And unpopular or not, Artie Fadden's lot was returned to power for many years afterwards.