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Search tool that only returns content created before ChatGPT's public release

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Re: Search tool that only returns content created before ChatGPT's public release

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Post by rollulus »

jeffchuber wrote: post #12
swyx wrote: post #4

somebody said once we are mining "low-background tokens" like we are mining low-background (radiation) steel post WW2 and i couldnt shake the concept out of my head (wrote up in https://www.latent.space/i/139368545/the-concept-of-low-back... - but ironically repeating something somebody else said online is kinda what i'm willingly participating in, and it's unclear why human-origin tokens should be that much higher s…

that was me swyx

Multiple people have coined the idea repeatedly, way before you. The oldest comment on HN I could find was in December 2022 by user spawarotti: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33856172

Re: Search tool that only returns content created before ChatGPT's public release

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Post by gblargg »

maplethorpe wrote: post #25
tkgally wrote: post #16

Somewhat related, the leaderboard of em-dash users on HN before ChatGPT: https://www.gally.net/miscellaneous/hn-em-dash-user-leaderbo...

They should include users who used a double hyphen, too -- not everyone has easy access to em dashes.

Does AI use double hyphens? I thought the point was to find who wasn't AI that used proper em dashes.

Re: Search tool that only returns content created before ChatGPT's public release

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Post by Kinrany »

venturecruelty wrote: post #26
maplethorpe wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They should include users who used a double hyphen, too -- not everyone has easy access to em dashes.

Oof, I feel like you'll accidentally capture a lot of getopt_long() fans. ;)

Excluding those with asymmetrical whitespace around might be enough

Re: Search tool that only returns content created before ChatGPT's public release

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Post by jrjfjgkrj »

swyx wrote: post #4

somebody said once we are mining "low-background tokens" like we are mining low-background (radiation) steel post WW2 and i couldnt shake the concept out of my head (wrote up in https://www.latent.space/i/139368545/the-concept-of-low-back... - but ironically repeating something somebody else said online is kinda what i'm willingly participating in, and it's unclear why human-origin tokens should be that much higher s…

every human generation built upon the slop of the previous one

but we appreciated that, we called it "standing on the shoulders of giants"

Re: Search tool that only returns content created before ChatGPT's public release

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Post by jader201 »

gblargg wrote: post #43
maplethorpe wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They should include users who used a double hyphen, too -- not everyone has easy access to em dashes.

Does AI use double hyphens? I thought the point was to find who wasn't AI that used proper em dashes.

Anytime I do this — and I did it long before AI did — they are always em dashes, because iOS/macOS translates double dashes to em dashes.

I think there may be a way to disable this, but I don’t care enough to bother.

If people want to think my posts are AI generated, oh well.

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