[Topgamer7]

Todays game of was it AI generated?

> The compact size of the Mac mini, which packs a powerful System on a Chip (SoC) into a tiny footprint.The energy efficiency of Apple silicon (M-series) chips, which allows high density without overheating or excessive power draw.

This really adds nothing to the article, and looks like AI fluff to me.

Combine that with there being a bold section in like every single paragraph, I'm going to assume yes

[fiddlerwoaroof]

The thing that got me was always referring to Scaleway in the third person. e.g. this read like the response I get when I ask AI to review code:

> Scaleway’s solution to that problem was ingenious: embedding a Raspberry Pi module with each Mac mini.

(I realize this may be an artifact of a corporate style guide, but I'd much prefer "Our solution to that problem was embedding . . ." Both because the "was ingenious" doesn't add a ton and reads like puffery and because this is Scaleway's own blog and referring to yourself in the third person is grating.)

[bityard]

To me, it just reads like their marketing person's first language is not English. Which tracks because I believe the whole company is based on France.

[fragmede]

It doesn't? If you didn't know those two things, they seem highly relevant to the subject being discussed. They define SoC, which might be an acronym you've known since high school (I did, but I'm a total nerd), and it justifies why use Mac minis instead of what usually gets used.

As to whether it was AI generated or not, who cares? It's useful information if you didn't know it already, and if those words came out of matrix math or someone non-technical with a BS in communications, does it really matter to you? Are you going hungry tonight because the money that went to creating those words went to Nvidia and not Sarah in Marketing? Sarah in Marketing might be out of a job soon, but her boyfriend has a good job that's not threatened by AI, so I hope she'll be fine, but I don't know. Is that the underlying worry here?

There is an emdash in the article though, you didn't think to call that out too?

[bityard]

OTOH, empty human-generated marketing slop has been around for a LOT longer than empty AI marketing slop and also reads exactly like this.

[jaffa2]

If it smells like ai…