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Comment by gradascent | Hacker News Reader

> Genie 4 is natively multimodal, enabling audio-like music, ambient noises, and interactive dialogue

What on Earth is audio-like music? Do they mean music-like audio?

That was probably meant to be an em-dash, or have spaces around the hyphen.

Audio like: music, ambient-noises etc

I'm blessed to see that even google let their most important marketing prosa be generated by ai models without any proofreading from fleshy humans.

That isn't a mistake AI would make though -- it's something a human would accidentally do when replacing em dashes with hyphens

Which they would do if the text was LLM-generated and they wanted to disguise that fact. Or have a vibe-coded script to do the same.

I'm sorry but this comment is idiotic on so many levels

I mean, any way you slice it, writing 'audio-like music' prominently in your blog is amateur hour.

It could have been a human trying to justify their existence. "no no, I wrote this ad copy myself: look, no em-dashes!".

Quite the reverse honestly, I found it really funny that they didn't bother to have an AI proofread it before sending out

probably meant "audio like music, ambient noises, and interactive dialogue."

or just "music-like audio"?

Have you listened to "music" created by non-specialized models that use WebAudio to create?

It seems like a good descriptor to me! ;)

As opposed to video-like music...