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Wow. I couldn’t tell. How did you find out that it may be AI generated.


1. Poor writing quality

2. Didn't exist before 2023 (https://web.archive.org/web/20250000000000*/allchronology.co...)

3. Faces on https://allchronology.com/about/ look like they were taken from https://thispersondoesnotexist.com/


Not only the faces look like AI, their URLs look the part: https://i0.wp.com/allchronology.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/...

100k-ai-faces-3-1.jpg :)


Nice catch!!


The bios does not name the other "renowned" maganizes either they supposedly worked at.


Fo me, a few additional things:

Lots of boilerplate platitudes, especially towards the end of the story.

Some of the quotes appear to be fabricated. I can't find the "aviation analyst" tweet, and I'm pretty sure Maria Cantwell hasn't commented (unless it was video/audio only, and this is the only outlet that printed it). She's also no longer committee chair, being a member of the minority party in the Senate.

It very closely follows the AP article on this - like they copied their homework but changed some words - https://apnews.com/article/united-airlines-flights-grounded-...


I only skimmed the article and didn't catch it at first, but a deeper read shows overuse of "rule of 3" which to be fair is also something that hacks do.

But also factual errors, such as quoting the supposedly Democrat chair of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.

It seemed unlikely that a Democrat was left in that post, and I googled it, and indeed they weren't.


But if the training data cut off before January 2025...


It didn't have a date or range of dates for the occurrence, which is weird.


The footer is literally just "wordpress.com".




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