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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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[โ€“] boatswain@infosec.pub 1 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

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

[โ€“] 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".