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I was captivated by the introduction but I only made it halfway through before I gave up. The random bolding and emphasizing of almost every other word really p

I was captivated by the introduction but I only made it halfway through before I gave up. The random bolding and emphasizing of almost every other word really put me off. Also, even though I can see that it's clearly had a ton of human effort put into it, I got a lot of AI vibes from the writing.

eresonance 9mo ago
Yeah I agree, I'm wondering if the author's primary language isn't English and they leaned heavily into AI to get this article together. Either way I found the subject cool but the writing hard to go through.
- FridayoLeary 9mo ago
  lots of spelling mistakes which is odd for such a meticulously detailed article. I'm going for the theory he's not an english speaker. Op is wrong, it's one of the most interesting things i've seen here in a while and truly in the spirit of hn.
  - ale42 9mo ago
    Well, everything in the article (names & places) seems to point out the author is Italian...
blargthorwars 9mo ago
You’re absolutely correct! I was totally hooked by the intro—the kind that promises Forbidden Wisdom™—and then I made it about halfway before my attention quietly left the chat. The random bolding of almost every other word felt like getting yelled at by typography. I wasn’t reading anymore; I was flinching. And sure, I can tell there’s a ton of human effort in there, but the overall vibe? Very “AI but with a human supervisor.” Polished, eager, slightly over-explained, and aggressively formatted. I’m sure it’s useful. I just couldn’t finish.
- ThePowerOfFuet 9mo ago
  It's leaking
netsharc 9mo ago
Yeah, it's fucking goddamned excessive. Changing the CSS rule .jb { font-weight: 700; } to .jb { font-weight: 500; } got rid of all the bolded parts for me...
ajot 9mo ago
You can read it in the Medium frontend scribe.rip, to avoid some Medium shenanigans. I do think bolding stays the same though, it seems to have lots of bolding. Weird style. https://scribe.rip/infosec-watchtower/how-i-hacked-casio-f-91w-digital-watch-892bd519bd15 https://scribe.rip/infosec-watchtower/how-i-hacked-casio-f-9...
- ComputerGuru 9mo ago
  No, it doesn’t. This isn’t a Medium gripe (which sucks but isn’t to blame for once). Edit: this comment made sense before the post I replied to was edited to clarify that there is no material difference.
layer8 9mo ago
The article was published in June 2023, which makes LLM use less likely for that kind of article.

eresonance 9mo ago

Yeah I agree, I'm wondering if the author's primary language isn't English and they leaned heavily into AI to get this article together. Either way I found the subject cool but the writing hard to go through.

FridayoLeary 9mo ago
lots of spelling mistakes which is odd for such a meticulously detailed article. I'm going for the theory he's not an english speaker. Op is wrong, it's one of the most interesting things i've seen here in a while and truly in the spirit of hn.
- ale42 9mo ago
  Well, everything in the article (names & places) seems to point out the author is Italian...

blargthorwars 9mo ago

You’re absolutely correct! I was totally hooked by the intro—the kind that promises Forbidden Wisdom™—and then I made it about halfway before my attention quietly left the chat. The random bolding of almost every other word felt like getting yelled at by typography. I wasn’t reading anymore; I was flinching. And sure, I can tell there’s a ton of human effort in there, but the overall vibe? Very “AI but with a human supervisor.” Polished, eager, slightly over-explained, and aggressively formatted. I’m sure it’s useful. I just couldn’t finish.

ThePowerOfFuet 9mo ago
It's leaking

netsharc 9mo ago

Yeah, it's fucking goddamned excessive. Changing the CSS rule .jb { font-weight: 700; } to .jb { font-weight: 500; } got rid of all the bolded parts for me...

ajot 9mo ago

You can read it in the Medium frontend scribe.rip, to avoid some Medium shenanigans. I do think bolding stays the same though, it seems to have lots of bolding. Weird style. https://scribe.rip/infosec-watchtower/how-i-hacked-casio-f-91w-digital-watch-892bd519bd15 https://scribe.rip/infosec-watchtower/how-i-hacked-casio-f-9...

ComputerGuru 9mo ago
No, it doesn’t. This isn’t a Medium gripe (which sucks but isn’t to blame for once). Edit: this comment made sense before the post I replied to was edited to clarify that there is no material difference.

layer8 9mo ago

The article was published in June 2023, which makes LLM use less likely for that kind of article.