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What makes you say that? This didn't read like AI slop to me.

by dado3212 10mo ago

delfinom 10mo ago
There's an emdash, no human being uses emdashes.
- dboreham 10mo ago
  Er...I've been using em—dashes since I read Knuth in the 1980s.
  - throw-12-16 10mo ago
    [flagged]
    - dxdm 10mo ago
      no u
  - garyfirestorm 10mo ago
    you might like these https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46236514 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46236514 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46273466 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46273466
    - deathanatos 10mo ago
      (a.) those graphs are a crime against data viz. (b.) they practically demonstrate the point: while, yes, AI uses em-dashes, the entire corpus of em-dashes is still largely human, too, so using that as a sole signal is going to have a pretty high false positive rate.
  - deathanatos 10mo ago
    There are dozens of us. Which really makes me wonder how we ended up training an AI…
  - Aloha 10mo ago
    not only that, word (and others) will convert a dash into an em-dash in text.
Nextgrid 10mo ago
Overuse of bulleted lists, unnecessary sensationalism, sentences like "The requests flew. There was no WAF, no IP blocking, no CAPTCHA." and so on. It reeks of someone pasting some notes into a chat prompt and asking it to spruce it up for publication.
PKop 10mo ago
Pattern recognition skill issue then. It did to me. "The fallout" This flaw was critical. And other vibes. You know it when you see it, though it may be hard to define.
- sallveburrpi 10mo ago
  What is the AI slop version of “This looks shopped. I can tell from some of the pixels and from seeing quite a few shops in my time.” ?
  - A4ET8a8uTh0_v2 10mo ago
    'Having seen this cognitive payload a lot in my time' maybe? I like the idea.
- mmooss 10mo ago
  > You know it when you see it How do you know your perception is accurate? One of humanity's biggest weaknesses is trusting that kind of response.
  - PKop 10mo ago
    Maybe just try having confidence in yourself. Trust your instincts. I'm not going to impugn my own abilities based on some purported flaw in an abstract amorphous blog called "humanity", whatever that is. A lot of individuals of distinction have many characteristics better than the average, why wouldn't I trust myself more than other people? Pattern recognition is a many millions of years evolved ability best exemplified in the "human" species by the way, so I basically disagree with your whole premise anyways.
    - tempsaasexample 10mo ago
      The Brown killer was basically caught by a homeless man getting a bad vehicle about the future shooter. So I agree, trusting your gut is definitely a thing.
    - 10mo ago
tverbeure 10mo ago
> This incident is a stark reminder A stark reminder is a stark reminder about the existence of AI slop. You see the phrase a lot in social media comment spam.

What makes you say that? This didn't read like AI slop to me.

delfinom 10mo ago

There's an emdash, no human being uses emdashes.

dboreham 10mo ago
Er...I've been using em—dashes since I read Knuth in the 1980s.
- throw-12-16 10mo ago
  [flagged]
  - dxdm 10mo ago
    no u
- garyfirestorm 10mo ago
  you might like these https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46236514 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46236514 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46273466 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46273466
  - deathanatos 10mo ago
    (a.) those graphs are a crime against data viz. (b.) they practically demonstrate the point: while, yes, AI uses em-dashes, the entire corpus of em-dashes is still largely human, too, so using that as a sole signal is going to have a pretty high false positive rate.
- deathanatos 10mo ago
  There are dozens of us. Which really makes me wonder how we ended up training an AI…
- Aloha 10mo ago
  not only that, word (and others) will convert a dash into an em-dash in text.

Nextgrid 10mo ago

Overuse of bulleted lists, unnecessary sensationalism, sentences like "The requests flew. There was no WAF, no IP blocking, no CAPTCHA." and so on. It reeks of someone pasting some notes into a chat prompt and asking it to spruce it up for publication.

PKop 10mo ago

Pattern recognition skill issue then. It did to me. "The fallout" This flaw was critical. And other vibes. You know it when you see it, though it may be hard to define.

sallveburrpi 10mo ago
What is the AI slop version of “This looks shopped. I can tell from some of the pixels and from seeing quite a few shops in my time.” ?
- A4ET8a8uTh0_v2 10mo ago
  'Having seen this cognitive payload a lot in my time' maybe? I like the idea.
mmooss 10mo ago
> You know it when you see it How do you know your perception is accurate? One of humanity's biggest weaknesses is trusting that kind of response.
- PKop 10mo ago
  Maybe just try having confidence in yourself. Trust your instincts. I'm not going to impugn my own abilities based on some purported flaw in an abstract amorphous blog called "humanity", whatever that is. A lot of individuals of distinction have many characteristics better than the average, why wouldn't I trust myself more than other people? Pattern recognition is a many millions of years evolved ability best exemplified in the "human" species by the way, so I basically disagree with your whole premise anyways.
  - tempsaasexample 10mo ago
    The Brown killer was basically caught by a homeless man getting a bad vehicle about the future shooter. So I agree, trusting your gut is definitely a thing.
  - 10mo ago

tverbeure 10mo ago

> This incident is a stark reminder A stark reminder is a stark reminder about the existence of AI slop. You see the phrase a lot in social media comment spam.