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>Back in 2018, Jim Morrison, a singer, songwriter, and poet, who served as the lead vocalist of the rock band, once said: “Whoever controls the media, controls the mind.”

Jim Morrison Born: December 8, 1943. Died:July 3, 1971.

It is difficult for me to take an article seriously when there are glaringly obvious mistakes.

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Also sloppy to have written "the band" here when in fact no band has been introduced.

Was this article generated by AI?

It kind of reads like it. The whole article reminds me of something produced by GPT-3. Just the paragraph structure and wording alone.

Agreed. I'll admit I didn't notice it on first pass and just thought the Jim Morrison bit was sloppy writing, but reading it again it has all the hallmarks of GPT-generated text. It even talks about the etymology of the word "elite" for no reason!

If it isn't GPT-3, then it's writing at a high school level at best and shouldn't be on the front page.

Yeah, that was my first thought, too. It certainly makes me wonder about the rest of the article. I did a quick search to see if there was any Jim Morrison-related news from 2018, but other than some other people with the same name dying, there wasn’t anything. Even that movie with Val Kilmer was like 20-30 years ago. Very bizarre.

There wasn't any Morrison related news, but my cursory search shows a resurgence of the quote circulating on the web in the 2017/2018 period. Maybe this was when the author first heard it?

And as big as ViacomCBS is, it's still a subsidiary of National Amusements.

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