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I'm quite fond of the caption, which describes a "a proof-of-concept technology demonstrator that aims to demonstrate technologies and concepts"
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Brought to you by the Department of Redundancy Department.
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I think I'd rather have them working on airplane tech rather than writing airplane tech press releases. With this approach, it's not just a tactical thing; it's relieving the burden of wordsmithing from technical people.
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The technical people were never wordsmithing, they just didn't hire a technical writer. Instead of freeing up someone to do more design work, it freed someone to interview for a new job. I hope they get it.
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> The technical people were never wordsmithing, they just didn't hire a technical writer. Instead of freeing up someone to do more design work, it freed someone to interview for a new job. I hope they get it.

Do technical writers work on press releases? This sounds more like a job for the public relations/corporate communications department.

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It was a GPT.
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Or, at least, my take on GPT. :) I promise I am a human.
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You're absolutely right.
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Good to hear that the DoD's new contract with OpenAI is solving all the most important problems...
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It's a quote from someone...?
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... who probably wrote their prepared PR statement with an LLM.
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I have always talked/written like this. now that LLMs do it in a similar enough way, my own writing gets called AI slop. I just wish my rotator cuffs knew I was a robot.
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It's probably good signal at least, if not a bit of a harsh thing to say that I don't mean in a bad way, that your writing was bland or mediocre since LLMs are basically regression to the mean.
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Skimping on the service again, are we?
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It feels like DARPA has fallen so far. In a post-Salt Typhoon era it's really hard to imagine them as dynamic, best-in-class innovators anymore.
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This administration doesn't really prioritize anything that has to do with intelligence, so advanced research was obviously going to fall by the wayside.
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What are you saying? Do you think my claim was that all US research programs have closed up shop?
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No search results for "Salt Typhoon" as the query. This nation really is fucked.
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