AI-Written Stereophile Articles


Has anyone else noticed that some of Stereophile's articles are sounding decidedly "off" and just plain badly written? I have now read several that sound suspiciously like they're AI generated (bizarre phrasing, odd syntax, etc.). Just curious if others are noticing the same.

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I read Stereophile and TAS and I've also noticed a decline in writing quality. I have attributed this to a lack of editing. I think that the editors now just check for factural accuracy and let the articles go through with poor wording.

Let's face it; it's hard to make a review about a DAC interesting. What can you say that hasn't been said before? I suspect some of what we are seeing is the result of the reviewers trying harder and harder to say something original. 

I never thought about A.I. being a potential cause of this but I think that A.I. wouldn't be particularly good for writing audio equipment reviews. Maybe I just don't understand the capabilities of A.I. but the weird phrasing and odd syntax we are seeing is probably a clue that A.I. isn't being used. A.I. is better than that.

It’s very easy to find out what AI thinks about hifi topics. Just download an app like Poe and ask away. No need to wait for Stereophile to cover your topic of interest. Warning: Your life may never be the same again!

Has it occurred to anyone reading those articles that maybe how you comprehend them has changed over the years? As for the actual content, there's only so many ways you can say "blacker blacks" or "enthusiastically recommended" before you have to re-use terminology. 

I own a restaurant & was in need of a new dining room manager several months ago & received many applications on Indeed which is a great tool for such needs. Some of the applications were well written & impressive ( which doesn’t necessarily correlate to the person’s actual ability to perform their job…), some were poorly done w/ incomplete sentences, improper punctuation etc & some were so absurdly over the top that it was clear they were written by AI.  They repeated more or less the same things over & over in slightly different ways it became entertaining. 

If you ask AI chatbots, they're all biased and clueless in vast majority of cases.