Of course it's terrible: if I could train a machine to write a convincing Guardian editorial, or even a convincing sentence extract from a Guardian editorial, in two days by copying a readme and fiddling around with complex software which I don't really understand even after having successfully used it, then my job would be much less secure than it is.
When asked to explain the situation again, the liar will use the very same "convincing" sentence again.
Yet in some of Ms. Dumas's portraits suffering is subtle and implicit, a life sentence and therefore more convincing.
Shorten, in a letter to the prime minister, said there was "no convincing evidence to prove that mandatory minimum sentencing acts as an effective deterrent, in this or any other area of criminal justice".
As I read these condemnations, however, I was disappointed by the lack of any convincing argument regarding the outrageousness of Turner's sentence based on accepted notions of criminal justice.
Obama effectively pronounced sentence on Hayward and his less than convincing public performance last month when he said: "He wouldn't be working for me after any of those statements".
None of what he said could be framed as a convincing, nor could it even be framed as a sentence.
In all seriousness, if you took a few of these phrases, added a quote or two, and threw in one sentence of actual news, you'd have a pretty convincing press release.
That last sentence was actually repeated four times as if even Villas-Boas needed some convincing.
And that end was never guaranteed -- although the defense made a convincing case, the judge was a Sunday school teacher who had recently made headlines after sentencing five shoplifters to watch the epic biblical film "The Ten Commandments". .
