Louvre not having a good year
An evergreen headline.
NBC’s AI can’t write worth a hoot:
Hundreds of works were damaged at the Louvre in Paris when a pipe burst because of flooding, the museum’s deputy general administrator said.
The flooding led to a burst pipe and affected one of the three rooms of the library in the Egyptian antiquities department, he said.
Above are paragraphs 1 and 3 from the referenced article.
A simple but logical reading of both states that “a flood occurred (first), and the flood is what caused the pipe to burst (second)”. Extremely disappointed in this level of journalistic competence.
I don’t think it’s AI. It looks like bad human writing. An AI wouldn’t use clunky non-idiomatic phrases like this:
He noted that the area of the pipe break is part of museum spaces that will undergo a major renovation…
Also, A LLM would be unlikely to say a flood led to a burst pipe when it has lots of examples of writing where the causation is the other way round. A human having a brain fart might make that mistake though.
I suspect this article was written in a hurry by someone whose English isn’t great.
Good gravy! I was giving NBC at least a little credit for trying to do mediocre journalism.
I know English is not everyone’s first (or even second) language, but if your job is writing for a living in English at least get some help.
P.S. I only know one language myself and couldn’t read/write/speak/understand any other to save my soul, so I think people that can are really gifted. It’s just that NBC obviously didn’t care about this article in the least.
So, really the people who committed the heist were just trying to protect the jewels from this subpar structure.
I’m starting to think that maybe a responsible country like Eqypt or Lebanon might be better able to take care of the historical treasures of France.
The Louvre really can’t catch a break. I’m glad I saw it back in April of 2025, before any of this happened, because it ended up being my favourite part of my Paris trip.
Reenactment of Nile floods. Worship Isis to avoid such calamities befalling you.
