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maybe submitters should pay a dollar to submit bugs which they will get a refund for when bug is confirmed? even if not AI, there are probably many un skilled developers which submit bogus bug reports, even un knowingly.
Crazy how he doubled down by just pasting badger's answer into Chat and submitting the (hilariously obvious AI) reply: > Thanks for the quick review. You’re right — my attached PoC does not exercise libcurl and therefore does not demonstrate a cURL bug. I retract the cookie overflow claim and apologize for the noise. Please close this report as invalid. If helpful, I can follow up separately with a minimal C reproduc…
Unfortunately that seems to be the norm now – people literally reduce themselves to a copy-paste mechanism.
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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.
One of the most enraging things to me is when a text search of documentation fails because the word I'm searching for has been misspelled in a key place. That's one of the things I'm trying to solve for.
I'm also just a stickler for good style. It bums me out when people misuse heading levels. Heading level is not a font size markup!
Of course doing this does generate activity on my GH, but I think all of us have probably moved on from caring much about the optics of little green squares.
Also like someone else said, it's just fun. I like typing and making Git do a thing and using my nice keyboard.
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This reads as an AI generated response as well with the; "thanks", "you're right", flawless grammar, and plenty of technical references.
Faking grammar mistakes is the new meta of proving that you wrote something yourself. Or faking generated content into real one.
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what are they even reffering to, what does AI stand for in relation to India?
"Actually Indians" was coined to refer to "AI" products which turn out to be outsourced human labor in disguise. Builder.ai was the most infamous example.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/apr/10/amazon...
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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.
(This is a vaguely Socratic answer to the question of why the compose key is not more often used.)
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I think you might be onto something-- perhaps something from the first sentence of the post to which you are replying.
You’re absolutely right, that’s a sharp observation that really gets to the heart of the issue.
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The AI is trained on human input. It uses the dash because humans did.
I'm skeptical this is the reason: - Chatgpt uses mdashes in basically every answer, while on average humans don't (the average user might not even be aware it exists) - if the preference for em dashes came from the training set, other AIs would show the same bias (gemini and Le chat don't seem to use them at all)
I would not be shocked if an aspect to training is bucketing "this is an example of good writing style" into a specific category. Published books - far more likely to have had an editor sprinkle in fancy stuff - may be weightier for some aspects.
My iPhone converts -- to — automatically. So does Google Docs / Gmail (althought I'm not certain if that's on their end or my Mac's auto-correct kicking in). Plenty of them out there.
> other AIs would show the same bias
Unless they've been trained not to use it, now that a bunch of non-technical people believe "emdash = AI, always".
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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.
The compose key feels mandatory for anyone who wants to type their native langauge on an US-english layout. The combination[0] is "Compose--." though: – [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compose_key#Common_compose_com...
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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…
I have never seen an AI meeting summary that was useful or sufficient in explaining what happened in the meeting. I have no idea what people use them for other than as a status signal