Did The Absolute Sound use an AI chatbot to review the Soulution 717 monoblock amp?

You may recall a cartoon where the firing squad is in a circle, all aiming at the center where the prisoner is tied up.  The title was usually something like {pick the country you want to insult} Firing Squad.

As a group, Audiophiles are shrinking, not growing.  Unfortunately, comments within this post are proud to say "glad I did not renew" a subscription, or I'm not supporting them anymore. And to demonise each other all over one article! These online comments, read by many does not put a positive light on our hobby.

comments within this post are proud to say "glad I did not renew" a subscription, or I’m not supporting them anymore. And to demonise each other all over one article! These online comments, read by many does not put a positive light on our hobby.

Are we supposed to refrain from criticizing people just because they’re fellow audiophiles, or industry insiders, as Valin and Harley are?

I support honest journalism, not the other kind.

@gbmcleod
 

You wrote,

whatever glyphs anyone is seeing  on the website is not in the article, print or online

And this is the problem with TAS essentially falsifying the record. Without a word of explanation or accountability, they replaced the original article with a new and improved version that was probably not written by AI. Happened earlier this week, see the post by @Passthedutchie.

You can make your little insinuation that I and everyone else who saw that "glyph" (nice little racist touch BTW, Nepali and Hindi ≠ "glyphs") are making it up...but we all saw it. If you missed it, it’s right there in Passthedutchie’s verbatim dump of the original web article. Valin wrote, "SMPS delivering extreme current क्षमता."

Explain it. Explain that Hindi term. Explain how anyone but an LLM (Large Language Model, aka AI chatbot) could end up with a sentence that contains a random word of Hindi. It’s the smoking gun in the web article that TAS posted and left up for almost three months until someone noticed and TAS started to get slammed for it on the Internet.

And there were half a dozen other documented AI giveaways that you have consistently declined to address, hiding behind your "I’ve worked with these people and they’re paragons of virtue, hurr durr."

The evidence doesn’t lie.