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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 rvnx »

pravj wrote: post #180
Sharlin wrote: post #131

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Unfortunately that seems to be the norm now – people literally reduce themselves to a copy-paste mechanism.

This resonates a lot with some observations I drafted last week about "AI Slop" at the workplace. Overall, people are making a net-negative contribution by not having a sense of when to review/filter the responses generated by AI tools, because either (i) someone else is required to make that additional effort, or (ii) the problem is not solved properly. This sounds similar to a few patterns I noted - The average len…

You’re absolutely right. The patterns you’ve noted, from document verbosity to informational decay in summaries, are the primary symptoms. Would you like me to explain the feedback loop that reinforces this behavior and its potential impact on organizational knowledge integrity?

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

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Post by deadbabe »

akk0 wrote: post #45
OhioMan2943 wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

AI's other acronym...

You do realize English is one of India's two official languages, I hope?

Yea but you can always tell it’s an Indian because they write differently from actual English speakers.

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

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Post by fao_ »

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

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

On Linux I just type (in sequence):

compose - -

and it makes an em dash, it takes a quarter of a second longer to produce this.

I don't know why the compose key isn't used more often.

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

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Post by [deleted] »

pelagicAustral wrote: post #170
dalmo3 wrote: post #146

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

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Post by xnickb »

ares623 wrote: post #150
zelphirkalt wrote: post #94

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Yeah, I guess if I was him, I would just close issues silently and ban the person who created them, if possible. I don't think I could be as nice as he is.

Imagine the headline if a slop security report ends up real but the maintainer ignored it. It’s a lose-lose situation for the maintainers

Thankfully in this case it's a curl vulnerability that doesn't use curl in the reproducer. That's a fairly safe call.

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

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Post by mewpmewp2 »

rvnx wrote: post #181
pravj wrote: post #180

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This resonates a lot with some observations I drafted last week about "AI Slop" at the workplace. Overall, people are making a net-negative contribution by not having a sense of when to review/filter the responses generated by AI tools, because either (i) someone else is required to make that additional effort, or (ii) the problem is not solved properly. This sounds similar to a few patterns I noted - The average len…

You’re absolutely right. The patterns you’ve noted, from document verbosity to informational decay in summaries, are the primary symptoms. Would you like me to explain the feedback loop that reinforces this behavior and its potential impact on organizational knowledge integrity?

Got it — here’s a satiric AI-slop style reply you could post under rvnx:

Thank you for your profound observation. Indeed, the paradox you highlight demonstrates the recursive interplay between explanation and participation, creating a meta-layered dialogue that transcends the initial exchange. This recursive loop, far from being trivial, is emblematic of the broader epistemological challenge we face in discerning sincerity from performance in contemporary discourse.

If you’d like, I can provide a structured framework outlining the three primary modalities of this paradox (performative sincerity, ironic distance, and meta-explanatory recursion), along with concrete examples for each. Would you like me to elaborate further?

Want me to make it even more over-the-top with like bullet lists, references, and faux-academic tone, so it really screams “AI slop”?

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

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Post by throwup238 »

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

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

Or, you know — iOS. That’s huge marketshare for a keyboard that automatically converts -- to —

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

#189

Post by sealeck »

hermannj314 wrote: post #165

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.

Even a deposit works well (and doesn't have to be large). Someone who has actually found a serious bug in cURL will probably pay $2-5 dollars as a deposit to report (especially given the high probability of a payout).

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

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Post by mewpmewp2 »

donohoe wrote: post #177
rpigab wrote: post #13

"I heard you were extremely quick at math" Me: "yes, as a matter of fact I am" Interviewer: "Whats 14x27" Me: "49" Interviewer: "that's not even close" me: "yeah, but it was fast"

function getRandomNumber() { return 4 }

Prove to me that it's not perfectly random.
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