[tomasz_fm]

This article has ChatGPT written all over it

[drmath]

I could handle this style when it wasn't everywhere. But now I've developed a hypersensitivity and can't bear it. It's like suddenly most of the internet is in a language I can't read.

[FeteCommuniste]

I always wonder now if an article was written by GPT, or by someone who spent so much time chatting with GPT that they've started sounding like an LLM.

[neom]

I hand wrote something recently that I re-read the next day and I'm worried I sound like an LLM now, I'm pretty sure I always sounded like one because I like it to make exhaustive lists in my sentences, but it makes me wonder if the bot is rubbing off on me.

[wlesieutre]

I don't get how it makes this jump

> Then $40-65/month over 24-30 months

> replacing $3-5/week kerosene spending with a $0.21/day solar subscription (so with $1.5 per week half the price of kerosene)" in the next paragraph.

If it's $40-65/month that's $1.33 to $2.17 per day, not $0.21/day (assuming month with 30 days)

[hatthew]

Similarly

> Crop yields increase 3-5×

> Farmers go from $600/acre to $14,000/acre revenue

Wouldn't that revenue jump require a 23x increase in crop yield?

[Romario77]

It's an AI generated article full of errors. Simple arithmetic errors. Probably copied from a video or another article.

[wiz21c]

maybe over the lifetime of the installation ? But then they say the battery must be replaced after 5 years... So 5*12 - 30 months = 30 months without paying. So one pays about half 2.17 per day over the 5 years. But that's still about 5 times more than 0.21$/day... I'd love to believe the article, but you're right, the maths seem wrong.

[fakedang]

ChatGPT math.

[ZeWaka]

Even if it's not written by ChatGPT, it's the /exact style/ used by the linkedin AI evangelists

[antoniojtorres]

Yeah it’s all the punchy mini paragraphs.

Just one sentence here.

Then I realized.

That another sentence came after that.

[djmips]

It has a voice don't it...

[mikepurvis]

"Modular. Distributed. Digital. Financed by the people using it, subsidized by the carbon it avoids."

Every second paragraph thinks it's Steve Jobs introducing the iPhone.

[tomalbrc]

>It worked because it solved a real problem: Kenyans were already sending money through informal networks. M-PESA just made it cheaper and safer.

>Here’s why this matters: M-PESA created a payment rail with near-zero transaction costs. Which means you can economically collect tiny payments. $0.21 per day payments.

[Affric]

Yeah pure shit for us to eat.

I always wonder what the point is.