Two local men promised to build housing with a 3D printer.

[propublica@newsie.social]

Two local men promised to build housing with a 3D printer. That didn’t pan out.

When reporter Molly Parker started to investigate what went wrong, she found the printer disassembled on a flatbed truck at a country repair shop.

Then things got weird.
https://www.propublica.org/article/3d-printer-cairo-illinois-housing?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Illinois #Housing #3DPrinting #House #FBI #Journalism

[moss@beige.party]

@ProPublica Terrible writing. Is this one of the articles you had an AI produce? It’s laden with exaggerated descriptions like “biblical” and “weird” but then all that happened was a contractor over-promised and under-delivered, which is what most contractors do—and nobody was financially interested in fixing the results. There’s no story.

[iagox86@infosec.exchange]

@ProPublica am I crazy, or does this read like a pitch to a book and not a story? The author kept talking about the big things they did and the deep research and blah blah, right to the end, but never actually told the story. I kept waiting for the "subscribe for more" or "watch the documentary" part, but it never came

[iagox86@infosec.exchange]

@Moss @ProPublica it's such a weird story! The way it was written kept making promises, I was waiting and waiting for the "pay us for the full story" or "watch our documentary here" part that never came

[iagox86@infosec.exchange]

@ProPublica also, the promise of "things got weird", made repeatedly, was never fulfilled. Nothing was weird, it seems like perfectly normal politics

I'm like mad that I spent time reading such a pointless story!

[timpostma@mastodon.world]

@ProPublica I got another question especially because my high school friend’s dad is a professor the university of Windsor where they teach & go #3DPrinting homes & I have some serious questions for one a concrete 3DPrinter is a #investment & also what’s wrong with the supply chain

[orb2069@mastodon.online]

@ProPublica

Jesus, that AI voice read is Hard To Listen To As It Keeps Flubbing Emphasis And Irony Delivery.

[propublica@newsie.social]

@iagox86 @Moss This was originally published in our Dispatches newsletter as an introduction to the full investigation here: https://www.propublica.org/article/3d-printed-affordable-housing-cairo-illinois-prestige

[dark_stang@kind.social]

@ProPublica was this article entirely llm generated? It's not finished, right?

[moss@beige.party]

@ProPublica @iagox86@infosec.exchange Maybe you should try paying your editors.

[iagox86@infosec.exchange]

@ProPublica @Moss Ahh now it makes sense.. it felt like it was missing the story part