As an occasional writer I guess I should be afraid, perhaps every very afraid, about the coming onslaught of artificial intelligence. Or at least, that's what the current generation of writing bots might have me believe.
In my day job, I've sometimes used Narrative Science's Google Analytics tool to generate reports on how the website is performing - and usually been fairly impressed, even intrigued, by what it has surfaced. Unfortunately, the scope of the reports was fairly limited - leaving me still scrabbling around for other KPIs.
Articoolo promises to go further - produce artificially generated content on demand - and that's a bold statement. So I thought I'd give it a whirl on the topic of plastics reduction in everyday life.
Below is the full unedited article:
Reducing Plastic
REDUCE, REJUVENATE, REUSE, RECYCLE is a 4Rs concept, a remedy to control plastic waste. Think about the Solid Waste Management Hierarchy tree. Reduce on top of the tree. Reducing our use of excess or one off use disposable vinyl items is among the biggest advantages we might use, particularly at the customer level. There are literally 1000 of items used every day that needn't be plastic. As that's the lowest cost method they're made of plastic. When total costs are considered, then produce items like drinking straws from plastic, which have a lifetime of moments, simply to stay for 100s of years later, should inform us their true cost is far higher in comparison with the percentage of a penny to fabricate them.
Straws made from paperboard or newspaper continue to be accessible, but barely ever used. Over the country, California spends about 25 million bucks sending vinyl bags to landfill each year, and yet another 8.5 million bucks to remove littered bags from streets. Whilst a grocer pays next to nothing more for plastic bags and provides them to customers free of charge, the follow on cost to most of us is much higher. Paper bags are biodegradable and create a good second choice, but the giving from new paper bags every time remains a waste of energy and resources as compared with just reusing an existing bag.
Grocery stores along with other stores should be actively discouraged from the supply of plastic bags. There are many and various incentive systems used in some cities around the globe and forward thinking companies which are efficiently reducing their use of plastic bags. Most are only built around a fee for the bag. As soon when consumers realize they need to pay the real price of those environmentally damaging items, they'll stop anticipating or demanding them. The city from Toronto is an example from. Globally we use about a trillion plastic bags a year or 2, 000,000 bags a minute.
Where can they possibly go? STOP Using Plastic Bags. START Using Reusable Bags - Plastic Cups. How some of those are thrown away every day? Since the outcries against junk food outlets in the last 20 years, a number of them are now using paperboard cups which will biodegrade. Nevertheless, you may still find many, many more companies that give out plastic cups. They're also commonly sold in grocery stores when convenience things as there's no washing nor have to take home if used on a picnic. Disposable plastic cups are merely not needed. Cardboard cups will fill virtually all the requirements. Our modern age which promotes purchasing a coffee to go means a vinyl lid on every cup.
My honest assessment? It's pretty much on topic and I like the inclusion of the various facts and figures. It does, however, need a decent subedit and feels like a non-native English speaker's attempt at writing an article in places. As a first draft, I've read worse, and it would certainly help as a starting point if I was totally stuck for ideas. In short, it's perhaps a good example of where AI and humans can work together to produce something better and quicker than they could alone (the centaur approach).
Verdict: Getting there.
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