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Re: You did this with an AI and you do not understand what you're doing here

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Post by treesknees »

henrebotha wrote: post #95
zaphodias wrote: post #80

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't think there are humans involved. I've now seen countless PRs to some repos I maintain that claim to be fixing non-existent bugs, or just fixing typos. One that I got recently didn't even correctly balanced the parenthesis in the code, ugh. I call this technique: "sprAI and prAI".

Hey don't hate on us humans who genuinely do open random PRs to random projects to fix typos. https://github.com/pulls?q=is%3Apr+author%3Ahenrebotha+archi...

I’d love to know what your genuine motivation is. Is it a desire to genuinely improve projects? Because I’ve always had the impression that people who do this just want to boost their PR counts and GitHub activity numbers.

Re: You did this with an AI and you do not understand what you're doing here

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Post by navane »

cornholio wrote: post #136
zaphodias wrote: post #80

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't think there are humans involved. I've now seen countless PRs to some repos I maintain that claim to be fixing non-existent bugs, or just fixing typos. One that I got recently didn't even correctly balanced the parenthesis in the code, ugh. I call this technique: "sprAI and prAI".

We will quickly evolve a social contract that AI are not allowed to directly contact humans and waste their time with input that was not reviewed by other humans, and any transgression should by swiftly penalized. It's essentially spam, automatically generated content that is profitable in large volume because it offsets the real cost to the victims, by wasting their limited attention span. If you wantme to read your…

I was looking through my work email (my personal email is already too far gone) and realized 90pct of the messages were computer generated. Maybe not AI, but still all automatic process fired messages. I was looking for emails that were deliberately drafted by a human, not even sent only to me. Just messages that a human intentionaly made in the moment. Can't filter them out.

Re: You did this with an AI and you do not understand what you're doing here

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Post by cap11235 »

unwind wrote: post #159
Ndymium wrote: post #81

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En and em dashes are easily accessible on both my laptop's and phone's keyboard layouts and I like using them, just like putting the ö in coöperate. It's sad if this now makes me look like a robot and I have to use the wrong dashes to be more "human".

TIL that some people spell cooperate with an "ö". As a Swedish native it really breaks my reading of an English word, but apparently it's supposed to indicate that you should pronounce each "o" separately. Language is fun.

As a native English speaker, it also breaks my reading of "cooperate". Never seen it before. I think parent is just annoyingly eccentric for the sake of it.

Re: You did this with an AI and you do not understand what you're doing here

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Post by LandR »

treesknees wrote: post #161
henrebotha wrote: post #95

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hey don't hate on us humans who genuinely do open random PRs to random projects to fix typos. https://github.com/pulls?q=is%3Apr+author%3Ahenrebotha+archi...

I’d love to know what your genuine motivation is. Is it a desire to genuinely improve projects? Because I’ve always had the impression that people who do this just want to boost their PR counts and GitHub activity numbers.

There's been a couple of projects with typos, that I wanted to fix but didn't for exactly the reason above!

Didn't want to be seen as just padding my github.

Re: You did this with an AI and you do not understand what you're doing here

#165

Post by hermannj314 »

Start charging users to submit a vulnerability report.

It doesn't matter if it made by AI or a human, spammers operate by cheaply overproducing and externalizing their work onto you to validate their shit. And it works because sometimes they do deliver value by virtue of large numbers. But they are a net negative for society. Their model stops working if they have to pay for the time they wasted.

Re: You did this with an AI and you do not understand what you're doing here

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Post by Freak_NL »

alchemist1e9 wrote: post #142
Wowfunhappy wrote: post #109

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Ahem. https://www.gally.net/miscellaneous/hn-em-dash-user-leaderbo... As #9 on the leaderboard I feel like I need to defend myself.

I’m guessing this list is defined by Mac users who all got taught em dash somewhere similar or for similar reasons. It is only easy to use on a Mac. But I wonder what is the 2nd common influence of users using it?

This is a misconception which keeps getting repeated. It's easy to use an em-dash on any modern Linux desktop as well (and in a lot of other places).

Re: You did this with an AI and you do not understand what you're doing here

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Post by boothby »

LandR wrote: post #164
treesknees wrote: post #161

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I’d love to know what your genuine motivation is. Is it a desire to genuinely improve projects? Because I’ve always had the impression that people who do this just want to boost their PR counts and GitHub activity numbers.

There's been a couple of projects with typos, that I wanted to fix but didn't for exactly the reason above! Didn't want to be seen as just padding my github.

This makes me a bit sad. Over the years I've posted PRs to several, but not many, repos with a one-off fix, issue or improvement. It's a great opportunity to say hello and thanks to the maintainers.

Re: You did this with an AI and you do not understand what you're doing here

#168

Post by Freak_NL »

unwind wrote: post #159
Ndymium wrote: post #81

Earlier quoted context omitted.

En and em dashes are easily accessible on both my laptop's and phone's keyboard layouts and I like using them, just like putting the ö in coöperate. It's sad if this now makes me look like a robot and I have to use the wrong dashes to be more "human".

TIL that some people spell cooperate with an "ö". As a Swedish native it really breaks my reading of an English word, but apparently it's supposed to indicate that you should pronounce each "o" separately. Language is fun.

Using umlauts to signal that a vowel is pronounced separately is common in a number of languages (like Dutch).

Re: You did this with an AI and you do not understand what you're doing here

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Post by pelagicAustral »

dalmo3 wrote: post #146
brap wrote: post #121

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You’re absolutely right, that’s a sharp observation that really gets to the heart of the issue.

The user is now expressing sarcasm.

You're absolutely right, based on the tenor of the previous message exchange, it is likely that brap is indeed sarcastically responding to gryfft. Do you want me to explain the mechanics of this interaction?
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