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> The notorious “you are absolutely right”, which no-living human ever used before, at-least not that I know of What should we conclude from those two extraneo
by chrisjj 10mo ago
> The notorious “you are absolutely right”, which no-living human ever used before, at-least not that I know of
What should we conclude from those two extraneous dashes....
- skwee357 10mo agoThat I'm a real human being that is stupid in English sometimes? :)
- chrisjj 10mo agoThat's just what an AI would say :) Nice article, though. Thanks.
- wincy 10mo agoI knew it was real as soon as I read “I stared to see a pattern”, which is funny now I find weird little non spellcheck mistakes endearing since they stamp “oh this is an actual human” on the work
- fragmede 10mo agoOr the user has "ChatGPT, add random misspellings so it looks like a human wrote this" in their system config.
- skwee357 10mo agoHa! Despite the fact that I tend to proof read my posts before publishing, right after publishing, and sometimes re-reading them few months after publishing, I still tend to not notice some obvious typos. Kinda makes you feel appreciation for the profession of editors and spell checkers. (And yes, I use LanguageTools in neovim, but I refuse to feed my articles to LLMs).
- chrisjj 10mo agoYour stared typo passes spellcheck.
- roywiggins 10mo agoI'd read 100 blog posts by humans doing their best to write coherent English rather than one LLM-sandblasted post
- pixl97 10mo agoThe funny thing is I knew people that used the phrase 'you're absolutely right' very commonly... They were sales people, and part of the pitch was getting the buyer to come to a particular idea "all on their own" then make them feel good on how smart they were. The other funny thing on EM dashes is there are a number of HN'ers that use them, and I've seen them called bots. But when you dig deep in their posts they've had EM dashes 10 years back... Unless they are way ahead of the game in LLMs, it's a safe bet they are human. These phrases came from somewhere, and when you look at large enough populations you're going to find people that just naturally align with how LLMs also talk. This said, when the number of people that talk like that become too high, then the statistical likelihood they are all human drops considerably.
- al_borland 10mo ago> part of the pitch was getting the buyer to come to a particular idea "all on their own" then make them feel good on how smart they were. I can usually tell when someone is leading like this and I resent them for trying to manipulate me. I start giving the opposite answer they’re looking for out of spite. I’ve also had AI do this to me. At the end of it all, I asked why it didn’t just give me the answer up front. It was a bit of a conspiracy theory, and it said I’d believe it more if I was lead there to think I got there on my own with a bunch of context, rather than being told something fairly outlandish from the start. That fact that AI does this to better reinforce the belief in conspiracy theories is not good.
- 1bpp 10mo agoAn LLM cannot explain itself and its explanations have no relation to what actually caused the text to be generated.
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- ChrisMarshallNY 10mo agoI use them -but I generally use the short version (I'm lazy), while AI likes the long version (which is correct -my version is not).
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- _zagj 10mo agoThose are hyphens.