RE: https://mastodon.social/@CanavuHQ/115871928889939122
This weather bot account has been popping up on my Edmonton hashtag feed this week & I keep rolling my eyes at the obviously LLM-generated text. So pleasant, so chatty, so completely void of any useful information beyond the basic forecast.
"Keep your winter tires ready" for minor flurries??? Clearly generated by a word association algorithm with no understanding of winter driving. (There is packed snow turning to slush on every street in Edmonton, & no one swaps out their tires mid-winter based on daily weather forecasts, anyway!)
But it is well written. It has interesting tidbits. It is *engaging*. And if you, also, did not have any knowledge of winter driving, it would probably read as helpful.
Me, I prefer structured, easily scannable data:
Edmonton, Saturday Jan 10
High of 1°C, mostly sunny, with clouds increasing by evening.
Overnight low of -6°C*, with chance of flurries.
Everything else is LLM fluff.
* this is clearly based on an airport forecast, not city, but that's another matter.
#YEGwx
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Amelia Bellamy-Royds :progress:
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