At the beginning of 2023, one of the Russian IT companies posted on the HeadHunter website the resume of news editor Olga Petrova, whose personality was completely synthesized by a neural network. “Reedus” tested Hire a virtual employee to test how a print journalist handles their day-to-day work.
Olga Petrova had to choose the latest informational events herself, ensuring the uniqueness of the texts at least 70%. Plan for the day – 10-12 notes with an arbitrary number of characters. At the same time, the tasks of the “collaborator” did not include the selection of illustrations. The company did not disclose which requests were sent by the neural network operator, but according to the editor, Petrova’s texts left feeling machine-translated.
“Censor words are hard to find. Olga Petrova’s texts contain two different versions of the same surname and institution names. The construction of sentences is hellish, the use of terms is lame. <…> The choice of word and sound form is as follows: “criticised”, for example. Other mistakes included statements such as “elected as leader” and “issues raised”. In addition, the neural network uses really unnecessary adverbs, for example, your proofreader said, “too much concentrated.”
At the same time, the publication did not exclude that specially designed requests can solve problems with texts.
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