Does anyone have the original source of this information? This article seems to be AI generated: https://www.pangram.com/history/fdf6dfd6-1a9c-4267-a90c-a3cf...
Pangram isn’t a reliable detector
Still the linked article reads like slop
Workers Drilling in Romania Broke into a Cave Sealed for 5.5M Years
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Re: Workers Drilling in Romania Broke into a Cave Sealed for 5.5M Years
#32Earlier quoted context omitted.
Before 1986 there have been twelve "public" core meltdowns, and at least six, likely more, incidents not public on nuclear subs, etc. ~ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_and_radiation_accident... You should look up how many live armed nuclear bombs have been accidentally dropped on mainland US soil. More significantly, there's been a lot of above ground and atmospheric tests that have draped residuals across the…
Isn't there a nuclear bomb sitting somewhere in a swamp in the USA that everybody lost?
"Yes"
- TBH I'd be surprised if it's still "lost" - not further reported on because [ XXXredactedXXX ] is more likely.
Re: Workers Drilling in Romania Broke into a Cave Sealed for 5.5M Years
#33Great first line for a story.
It is indeed well written but I feel it has LLM smell, not that is a bad thing.
Re: Workers Drilling in Romania Broke into a Cave Sealed for 5.5M Years
#34Just because the cave is sealed now, does not mean it has been sealed for millions of years. Even for geology, 5.5M years is a long time. I don't understand how they can claim it never had connections to the outside, just because it doesn't have connections now.
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#35Speleology aside, just a few days ago in one of HN discussions I was told LLM-produced content is already indistinguishable from human-made. But I'm sure I would have pretty good chances to correctly guess even the exact brand which helped to write this sloppy text. And it's the same with many stories I read.
Re: Workers Drilling in Romania Broke into a Cave Sealed for 5.5M Years
#36Speleology aside, just a few days ago in one of HN discussions I was told LLM-produced content is already indistinguishable from human-made. But I'm sure I would have pretty good chances to correctly guess even the exact brand which helped to write this sloppy text. And it's the same with many stories I read.
Stake the claim then. I’ve also read a fair bit of LLM text and this didn’t trip anything for me.
Edit: after reading the author bio and the other articles, I agree with this assessment. Though I will admit, this particular article didn’t jump out as AI to me.
Re: Workers Drilling in Romania Broke into a Cave Sealed for 5.5M Years
#37The wikipedia article says "While animals have lived in the cave for 5.5 million years, not all of them arrived simultaneously. One of the most recent animals recorded is the cave's only species of snail, Heleobia dobrogica, which has inhabited the cave for slightly more than 2 million years."
Re: Workers Drilling in Romania Broke into a Cave Sealed for 5.5M Years
#38Does anyone have the original source of this information? This article seems to be AI generated: https://www.pangram.com/history/fdf6dfd6-1a9c-4267-a90c-a3cf...
Pangram isn't useful for single documents. Too many false positives. It only gives something approaching actionable results if you use it on an entire corpus.
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#39Earlier quoted context omitted.
Have there been many nuclear reactor meltdowns prior to Chernobyl?
You could just look for isotopes from the atmospheric nuclear tests that were conducted? Doesn't need to be a reactor I would assume?
Indeed. That's one of the reasons why the "Before Present" time scale (that uses 1/1/1950 as the epoch) is sometimes called "Before Physics" (another one being that 1950 is less and less "present", of course)!
Re: Workers Drilling in Romania Broke into a Cave Sealed for 5.5M Years
#40Earlier quoted context omitted.
Isn't there a nuclear bomb sitting somewhere in a swamp in the USA that everybody lost?
"Yes" - TBH I'd be surprised if it's still "lost" - not further reported on because [ XXXredactedXXX ] is more likely.
Also, if the finding is never recorded, it can be used to frame just about anyone who can be accused of finding it and smuggling it out of the US.