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I've heard of microdosing Hitler but this is a whole new level of clbuttic.
Titrating the Hitler particles out of solution. (remarkably, the phrase "particle of Hitler in every bourgeoise" comes from Trotsky rather than being original internet slang)
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Google Translate uses an LLM, last I heard.
It switched very recently I think if at all. It was way worse at translations than Gemini even at the beginning of this year. Especially between a pair of languages other than English. It was mixing two completely different words that are the same in English.
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it's serious but still a small project, there isn't much on the site. I personally would like the law I linked to be followed. I sent a copy to the major browser makers and left this suggestion: https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/ideas/comply-with-choose-cook... where it got 1 kudos from a community manager but no other upvotes or comments. The announcement of the law here on HN (linked in my gp comment) got 2 upvotes an…
I have to be honest, to someone who knows nothing about you, this is all a little concerning.
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it's serious but still a small project, there isn't much on the site. I personally would like the law I linked to be followed. I sent a copy to the major browser makers and left this suggestion: https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/ideas/comply-with-choose-cook... where it got 1 kudos from a community manager but no other upvotes or comments. The announcement of the law here on HN (linked in my gp comment) got 2 upvotes an…
I have to be honest, to someone who knows nothing about you, this is all a little concerning.
- Could you please email me at the email address in my profile? (or add an email to yours.)
I have some followup questions about your concerns. Thank you.
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That sounds like Anthrophics watermark explanation though.
Anthropic’s watermark is just using a known collection of random seeds during output token generation. That’s it. The models always relied on some randomness, here the randomness is fixed and remembered for querying later.
(One approach that's been described is creating a bias in certain token pairs or short sequences: by hashing the previous n tokens, potentially with a secret seed, you create a list of essentially random allowed and disallowed next tokens, then bias the token selection to prefer allowed tokens, so long as they are plausible enough. Then you can check any long-enough subset of the output, if it deviates significantly enough from random chance on following this rule, it was almost certainly generated from a system following these rules.)
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Well for the ding dong that downvoted me, here's a technical explanation of why this is a plausible theory * current LLMs work by choosing next likely token, with a small randomization built in (emulating how humans sometimes substitute words) * one implementation of the text marking is to "rig" the dice roll above, but do that on based upon a certain key * so by looking at word substitutions in text, you can use a k…
The phenomenon of tortured phrases in published papers has been going on since at least 2020 - long before LLMs were a significant factor, and certainly before watermarking their output was a consideration. The general working theory is that these phrases are the result of a "text spinner" tool being applied to a manuscript and blindly replacing random words or phrases using a preset list of synonyms (which are often…
Most of these are authored by what appear to be non-native English speakers. So, the most likely explanation is a translation issue. In engineering literature from Russia from the 1960s, one sometimes finds references to a ‘water goat’ in papers that are otherwise about heavy machinery. It turns out this is a twice-translated rendition of ‘hydraulic ram’.
All your base are belong to us .
Nothing beats when, in a chemistry paper, AI paraphrased „the final solution” into „the mass killing of an ethnic group”. “Subsequently, 1 mL of the mass killing of an ethnic group was opposed to 20 mL of the skin sample and unprotected to light for 7 min.” From: https://bsky.app/profile/forbetterscience.bsky.social/post/3...
This doesn‘t sound like AI. LLMs do not use dictionary definitions for translating a paper this way. It does look like some translation engine like Google Translate or worse, maybe with some text obfuscator trying to avoid plagiarism detection.
The changes they made often resulted in this kind of weird nonsense: Swapping the word "Failure" for "Disappointment" in a vain attempt to keep it from saying "you're a failure", but also just stripping out words such as slurs and insults, resulting in at one point the hilarious situation in which Gemini for quite a while would INSIST that the lyrics for the Dire Straits song "Money for Nothing" contained "That little has his own jet airplane/that little is a millionaire" -- which in certain contexts changes the meaning of the song incredibly.
These hack-and-slash text manglings have resulted in some of these clbuttic sort of writing styles being used during LLM-assisted writing. A more famous version of this was caused by one paper: https://world.edu/a-weird-phrase-is-plaguing-scientific-pape...