A few of us were blogging days ago about how to tell if the title, article or, other written messages are AI generated or, actually written by the author who failed to proofread before publishing. I have an idea as to why AI might be doing this, other than not being human.
When I was in school, I had an English teacher who went on rampages over ‘dangling participles’. She literally went over-the-top with it. “This is ENGLISH, not Latin or Greek! You’re learning to write in English! No dangling participles!”
It dawned on me that this might be the challenge that AI is having in attempting to write in English. AI would have to be given a history of how English developed as a language, etc. and most English words are derived from Greek or Latin; not all words but, the vast majority of them. It might be pulling from the Greek or Latin sentence structure when writing in English and can’t quite put it together correctly. I don’t know if they qualify as ‘dangling participles’ but, they’re dangling, whatever they are. One of the people in my group who speaks fluent, Castilian Spanish made the same comment almost immediately upon reading a few examples.
Here’s a tweet that QVBB posted that exhibits this problem with English translation. I don’t know how correct the sentence structure is in the original language; most foreign newscasters use an AI based translation system.
“A plane carrying five environmental scientists who were supposed to investigate the situation in Ohio crashed shortly after taking off from the airport after a train carrying toxins derailed. No one survived…” The portion that reads, “after a train carrying toxins derailed” does not belong at the end of the sentence. Perhaps AI didn’t understand the proper English sentence construction and defaulted to Latin or Greek?
Here’s my absolute favorite example from Jan. 19 that needs no explanation:
“Decapitation victim ‘wasn’t the same’ after she wedded, coworkers say.”
See what I mean?! Anyway, it’s an idea…