The Guardian has reportedly spent several years pushing the boundaries of machine-like journalism, after revealing that its long-running Adrian Chiles column has effectively been an early large language model, outputting a steady diet of polished but purposeless musings on whatever happens to cross its path that week.

According to recent Guardian pieces, Chiles has often returned to the same broad territory: technology, inconvenience and the daily indignities of modern life. In one earlier column, he argued that gadgets and digital helpers can leave people less able to do simple things for themselves, while in another he described the relief of speaking to a real human after battling an AI customer-service bot over a faulty charger.

That makes the apparent AI connection feel, if not entirely surprising, then at least administratively plausible. Chiles has also spent recent months writing about buying a drill for the first time at 58, taking tentative steps into DIY, and complaining about the baffling excesses of over-complicated consumer products, from touch-screen fridges to razors with too many blades. Taken together, the output reads less like a column than a gently processed stream of middle-aged irritation.

Guardian insiders are said to have valued the arrangement because it guarantees around 350 words a week of grammatical certainty, low-stakes confession and bafflingly specific wonderings, including why keys never fit locks first time, where lone socks go, and whether West Bromwich Albion will ever win the Premier League. If nothing else, the arrangement may finally explain why the piece has always felt both eerily fluent and oddly empty.

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