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Re: AI content is everywhere on social media, especially LinkedIn

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Post by nickvec »

scientifik wrote: post #30

LinkedIn is totally useless at this point. - If you're a job seeker, most of the jobs are fake for pretend growth optics. - If you're a senior level or executive you're targeted non-stop by sales people telling you about "the conversations they're having ..." - If you're looking for actual thought leadership or interesting information, you're bombarded with random tik-tok style videos, totally contrived stories and "…

I've managed to get quite a few interviews through LinkedIn jobs, though I'm looking for DevOps roles in particular, which may be an exception to the rule.

Re: AI content is everywhere on social media, especially LinkedIn

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Post by Bender »

EFreethought wrote: post #126
palmotea wrote: post #125

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Beyond the OP's AI-written or AI assisted distinction, I'm also noticing people mimicking LLM's speech patterns. I wonder if long disfavored words like "ain't" might make a comeback as proofs of humanity.

If they do, then AI writing will incorporate them.

One thing I have yet to see on the mainstream AI platforms is a combination of foul language, dirty jokes, rule34 and racial slurs. 4chan-GPT and local LLM's excluded. Perhaps require Rule34 and foul language as proof. There's probably a way to jailbreak that for a little bit but it would get patched.

Re: AI content is everywhere on social media, especially LinkedIn

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Post by Bender »

visiondude wrote: post #122

yeah i’ve been looking for online social spaces that have some sort of human verification to reduce my slop exposure. the PRSN app that launched recently seems promising but it’s empty rn.

I think it would require people create some naughty limericks, make foul jokes, rule34, rekt and ethnic slurs. Those seem to be the only things that mainstream AI have been tuned to avoid. There's probably a way to jailbreak that for a little bit but it would get patched.

Re: AI content is everywhere on social media, especially LinkedIn

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Post by overfeed »

acdha wrote: post #140
asdff wrote: post #130

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It isn't surprising given how many people totally blew off assignments in english class growing up. Even pre ai, pre social media, reading was dying or already dead. Writing a close second. So many people in high powered positions sending those "ok Sent from my iPhone." emails. Many people in fact don't like doing. They like shutting off their brain. Sitting still and not using their body and letting muscles atrophy…

That was the low-key surprise for me in the Epstein files: so many rich, powerful people wrote at an early grade-school level even in professional contexts. I know that’s not a universal sample but it made me wonder how many unsung admin assistants, grad students, etc. cleaned up everything they wrote for a broader context.

Informal devience is a social signifier "I want you to know I don't have to do that shit"

Re: AI content is everywhere on social media, especially LinkedIn

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Post by pizzafeelsright »

acdha wrote: post #140
asdff wrote: post #130

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It isn't surprising given how many people totally blew off assignments in english class growing up. Even pre ai, pre social media, reading was dying or already dead. Writing a close second. So many people in high powered positions sending those "ok Sent from my iPhone." emails. Many people in fact don't like doing. They like shutting off their brain. Sitting still and not using their body and letting muscles atrophy…

That was the low-key surprise for me in the Epstein files: so many rich, powerful people wrote at an early grade-school level even in professional contexts. I know that’s not a universal sample but it made me wonder how many unsung admin assistants, grad students, etc. cleaned up everything they wrote for a broader context.

I worked for some very wealthy and powerful.

Some were low IQ but had power and money. Some were busy. Some did not want to put any additional effort because the relationship permitted them to be informal, lazy, brief.

In person and with contracts they were extremely diligent with their words.

Re: AI content is everywhere on social media, especially LinkedIn

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Post by Terr_ »

overfeed wrote: post #144
acdha wrote: post #140

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That was the low-key surprise for me in the Epstein files: so many rich, powerful people wrote at an early grade-school level even in professional contexts. I know that’s not a universal sample but it made me wonder how many unsung admin assistants, grad students, etc. cleaned up everything they wrote for a broader context.

Informal devience is a social signifier "I want you to know I don't have to do that shit"

"... And you can't stop me, 'cuz I'm better than you."

Re: AI content is everywhere on social media, especially LinkedIn

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Post by lelanthran »

brendoelfrendo wrote: post #49
ikesau wrote: post #14

Beyond the OP's AI-written or AI assisted distinction, I'm also noticing people mimicking LLM's speech patterns. I've read blogs from people who I'm quite sure are above pasting AI output directly into their words who nevertheless are sounding more and more like AI as the sum of all their conversations with Claude begins to rub off on them (myself included, probably)

I suppose it stands to reason: LLMs were trained on human writing, and overuse certain tropes and patterns because those patterns are commonly represented in human writing. But many people aren't particularly adept writers, and they're going to turn to AI to either do their writing or inform how they write. The trope ends up reinforcing itself as people just start to think that AI output is just what normal writing l…

> overuse certain tropes and patterns because those patterns are commonly represented in human writing.

That's factually untrue. Give me a link to a pre-2020 piece of writing that sounds like an LLM.

Re: AI content is everywhere on social media, especially LinkedIn

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Post by lelanthran »

27183 wrote: post #139
tayo42 wrote: post #81

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That's a corporate phrase that predates the current llm stuff along with things like ping, circle back,table that

Learnings, solutioning, synergy

Ideation.

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