h2g2bob @h2g2bob@mastodon.dbatley.com

Following an innocuous link in a Full Fact article unexpectedly dropped me into the BBC politics website, 1997. Seems to have been created solely to cover that year, and then kept in it's final state ever since.

Fascinating stuff, and kudos to the Beeb for keeping (most of) it online. There are GIFs, though not as many as I would have preferred.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/special/politics97/

Wikipedia has a cheat sheet of well-known tells for identifying generated text. (With an appropriate warning not to over-index on minor ones as absolute proof) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_AI_Cleanup/AI_catchphrases

"Projections suggest that ongoing deep funding cuts—combined with the potential dismantling of [USAID] — could result in more than 14 million additional deaths by 2030, including 4·5 million deaths among children younger than 5 years." https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(25)01186-9/fulltext #globalhealth