Microsoft Bing is using AI to write blurbs and descriptions for websites and other pages, and I had a little laugh to myself when I saw this today.

The part I have underlined is where the programming has made an assumption, based upon the words and descriptions used in the opening paragraph of the story.

Now here is the actual beginning of ‘Red Widow’…

Maria was a novice when it came to service stations. Never had she been able to top up
her car’s tank without spilling a little fuel over her hands. Even after seven or eight
attempts, it was always the first spurt out of the nozzle that caught her. It could have
been dangerous had she been a smoker like her husband.

I guess the AI has identified that the character is ‘working’ at the service station as she is manually filling up her car with petrol, which I suppose could be argued as being somewhat correct.

By the way, my short story ‘Red Widow’ can be downloaded on this website for free, but it gets a little rough and is not for the faint-hearted.

Link to Downloads page below.

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