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Flock, maker of controversial license plate readers, starts to give campaign cash to local politicians (chicago.suntimes.com)
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Among the recipients of the money: Cicero Town President Larry Dominick and Lake County Sheriff John Idleburg, both of whose government agencies use the technology from the Atlanta company.

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[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 20 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

I'm pretty sure the article is written by AI...

The first contribution to the Cicero Voters Alliance (The Larry Dominick Team) was for $1,000, made in 2021, according to Illinois State Board of Elections records.

It's started (in that specific place) five years ago.

[–] trojanbark@lemmy.world 9 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

I do not even want to read any thing on the Internet anymore, it is all just AI now

[–] PagPag@lemmy.world 5 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Grammatical errors are human signaling now.

[–] VonReposti@feddit.dk 1 points 8 hours ago

Just wait until they figure out how to train on the likes of Reddit to get more human grammar in the output.

[–] boatswain@infosec.pub 1 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

What makes it seem like that bit is written by AI?

[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 4 points 6 hours ago

You can tell it's an AI article, because of the way it is...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_d8mjam7KG8

But the way the headline ignores information in the article, formatting images in the middle of a sentence, the words and tone usage.

Just a whole bunch of minor things that add up to "the way it is".