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This article appears to be nonsense from a fascinatingly nonsensical site. Is someone running fake news site using a large language model? The front page: full

by jauer 5y ago

This article appears to be nonsense from a fascinatingly nonsensical site. Is someone running fake news site using a large language model? The front page: full of headline clickbait with paragraph segments of nonsense. For example: "The Remington Portable Typewriter lists at $29.95. It has capital and small letters, standard key board, shift key and many features. It also resembles he big machines in efficiency, for don’t forget it’s a Remington – with every merit for which Remingtons are famous. On sale at all stores except Jamaica." The article is... questionable. One part says: > It’s smart to avoid using wireless devices like mobile phones or GPS systems, since they have digital signatures that can reveal your location. This would make more sense if it was referring to drones that carry a sigint payload, except GPS receivers don't transmit and that would be a RF signature, not a "digital signature".

amcoastal 5y ago
Right? I was hoping for a good article and instead got machine learned drivel. Is the OP just a bot too?
jonas21 5y ago
It appears to be a copy of this article [1] from The Conversation (the original was published under a Creative Commons license, so I guess that's fine). The Conversation is backed by a number of well-known universities and foundations [2], and the author seems to be a real professor [3]. Of course that doesn't mean it's not nonsense. But probably not generated by a language model. [1] https://theconversation.com/how-to-hide-from-a-drone-the-subtle-art-of-ghosting-in-the-age-of-surveillance-143078 https://theconversation.com/how-to-hide-from-a-drone-the-sub... [2] https://theconversation.com/us/partners https://theconversation.com/us/partners [3] https://www.sandiego.edu/news/biography.php?profile_id=2082 https://www.sandiego.edu/news/biography.php?profile_id=2082
- harshreality 5y ago
  I'm confused; is he a real professor, in the sense that he actually knows core sociology literature well, or is he a grifter sociologist professor who has found a niche and some publicity for himself by writing relatively light academic-sounding fluff focusing on the intersection of drone technology and modern issues of concern (slavery, trafficking, the panopticon)?
  - IncRnd 5y ago
    Sociology is not known as a hard science, regardless of the professor.
sidpatil 5y ago
I was curious, so I searched that typewriter ad. Turns out there are a whole bunch of copycat sites with that ad too. https://www.google.com/search?q=The+Remington+Portable+Typewriter+lists+at+%2429.95.+It+has+capital+and+small+letters,+standard+key+board,+shift+key+and+many+features.+It+also+resembles+the+big+machines+in+efficiency,+for+don’t+forget+it’s+a+Remington+–+with+every+merit+for+which+Remingtons+are+famous.+On+sale+at+all+stores+except+Jamaica https://www.google.com/search?q=The+Remington+Portable+Typew... The ad in itself doesn't actually sound nonsensical. Remington did make portable typewriter models, though I didn't find any pricing information. I'm also not sure what's meant by "all stores except Jamaica." I don't know if Jamaica in this case means the country or the NYC neighborhood.

by jauer 5y ago

amcoastal 5y ago

Right? I was hoping for a good article and instead got machine learned drivel. Is the OP just a bot too?

jonas21 5y ago

It appears to be a copy of this article [1] from The Conversation (the original was published under a Creative Commons license, so I guess that's fine). The Conversation is backed by a number of well-known universities and foundations [2], and the author seems to be a real professor [3]. Of course that doesn't mean it's not nonsense. But probably not generated by a language model. [1] https://theconversation.com/how-to-hide-from-a-drone-the-subtle-art-of-ghosting-in-the-age-of-surveillance-143078 https://theconversation.com/how-to-hide-from-a-drone-the-sub... [2] https://theconversation.com/us/partners https://theconversation.com/us/partners [3] https://www.sandiego.edu/news/biography.php?profile_id=2082 https://www.sandiego.edu/news/biography.php?profile_id=2082

harshreality 5y ago
I'm confused; is he a real professor, in the sense that he actually knows core sociology literature well, or is he a grifter sociologist professor who has found a niche and some publicity for himself by writing relatively light academic-sounding fluff focusing on the intersection of drone technology and modern issues of concern (slavery, trafficking, the panopticon)?
- IncRnd 5y ago
  Sociology is not known as a hard science, regardless of the professor.

sidpatil 5y ago

I was curious, so I searched that typewriter ad. Turns out there are a whole bunch of copycat sites with that ad too. https://www.google.com/search?q=The+Remington+Portable+Typewriter+lists+at+%2429.95.+It+has+capital+and+small+letters,+standard+key+board,+shift+key+and+many+features.+It+also+resembles+the+big+machines+in+efficiency,+for+don’t+forget+it’s+a+Remington+–+with+every+merit+for+which+Remingtons+are+famous.+On+sale+at+all+stores+except+Jamaica https://www.google.com/search?q=The+Remington+Portable+Typew... The ad in itself doesn't actually sound nonsensical. Remington did make portable typewriter models, though I didn't find any pricing information. I'm also not sure what's meant by "all stores except Jamaica." I don't know if Jamaica in this case means the country or the NYC neighborhood.