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LAN-LOK: The Antarctic DOS Sabotage Game Lost for 34 Years

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Re: LAN-LOK: The Antarctic DOS Sabotage Game Lost for 34 Years

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Post by StilesCrisis »

DanHulton wrote: post #7

I know it's "Evil AL", not "Evil AI", but there _is_ an "Evil AI" at work here - this is aislop, pure and simple. I wondered for a bit why the whole thing felt repetitive and boring, and then I hit this paragraph and it threw everything else into context: > LAN-LOK is more than a forgotten DOS curiosity, it is a preserved moment in the daily life of Antarctic research stations during the earliest days of their local…

The section “The Origins and Descendants of the Break/Fix Game Mechanic” is where I clocked out. It’s pure 100% AI filler. No human being would think to include multiple paragraphs associating a 90s DOS game about PC sysadmins with the film Wreck-It Ralph. Downvoting the article.

Re: LAN-LOK: The Antarctic DOS Sabotage Game Lost for 34 Years

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Post by l23k4 »

crummy wrote: post #8
DanHulton wrote: post #7

I know it's "Evil AL", not "Evil AI", but there _is_ an "Evil AI" at work here - this is aislop, pure and simple. I wondered for a bit why the whole thing felt repetitive and boring, and then I hit this paragraph and it threw everything else into context: > LAN-LOK is more than a forgotten DOS curiosity, it is a preserved moment in the daily life of Antarctic research stations during the earliest days of their local…

That sentence does set off alarm bells, but in the context of the entire article I don't think it's AI written.

Come on, try and imagine the human being who would write that sentence.

The article is obviously AI written in its entirety.

I mean look at this sentence which randomly contains the " - " pattern twice in a row, which is then not repeated once anywhere else in the article:

> Created after the installation of the station’s first peer-to-peer local area network (PalmerLAN), the game captures - through humor, satire, and surprisingly accurate mechanics - the daily realities of early LAN administration in one of the most isolated research communities on Earth.

Totally natural human writing!

Re: LAN-LOK: The Antarctic DOS Sabotage Game Lost for 34 Years

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Post by anonzzzies »

DanHulton wrote: post #7

I know it's "Evil AL", not "Evil AI", but there _is_ an "Evil AI" at work here - this is aislop, pure and simple. I wondered for a bit why the whole thing felt repetitive and boring, and then I hit this paragraph and it threw everything else into context: > LAN-LOK is more than a forgotten DOS curiosity, it is a preserved moment in the daily life of Antarctic research stations during the earliest days of their local…

Agreed, and it was repetitive indeed, to the point of annoyance; for some strange reason there is this though:

> so Mark and Shane may have been Palmer winter-over reserchers.

Re: LAN-LOK: The Antarctic DOS Sabotage Game Lost for 34 Years

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Post by timschmidt »

l23k4 wrote: post #12
crummy wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That sentence does set off alarm bells, but in the context of the entire article I don't think it's AI written.

Come on, try and imagine the human being who would write that sentence. The article is obviously AI written in its entirety. I mean look at this sentence which randomly contains the " - " pattern twice in a row, which is then not repeated once anywhere else in the article: > Created after the installation of the station’s first peer-to-peer local area network (PalmerLAN), the game captures - through humor, satire, an…

Using dashes twice like that is valid. It's a bit like parentheses, to frame a tangential statement between them, but with emphasis instead of quietly. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dash

I use that construction in my totally human writing often enough. Some of us missed a few English classes it seems.

Re: LAN-LOK: The Antarctic DOS Sabotage Game Lost for 34 Years

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Post by stuaxo »

crummy wrote: post #8
DanHulton wrote: post #7

I know it's "Evil AL", not "Evil AI", but there _is_ an "Evil AI" at work here - this is aislop, pure and simple. I wondered for a bit why the whole thing felt repetitive and boring, and then I hit this paragraph and it threw everything else into context: > LAN-LOK is more than a forgotten DOS curiosity, it is a preserved moment in the daily life of Antarctic research stations during the earliest days of their local…

That sentence does set off alarm bells, but in the context of the entire article I don't think it's AI written.

It has an LLM feel to me - the kind of verbosity that you get when a kid is padding out their homework to hit a word count.

Re: LAN-LOK: The Antarctic DOS Sabotage Game Lost for 34 Years

#16

Post by bitwize »

DanHulton wrote: post #7

I know it's "Evil AL", not "Evil AI", but there _is_ an "Evil AI" at work here - this is aislop, pure and simple. I wondered for a bit why the whole thing felt repetitive and boring, and then I hit this paragraph and it threw everything else into context: > LAN-LOK is more than a forgotten DOS curiosity, it is a preserved moment in the daily life of Antarctic research stations during the earliest days of their local…

> I know it's "Evil AL", not "Evil AI"

There's a TikTok going around with a guy telling us about how his daughter stumbled across a "Weird AI" online, which takes popular songs and makes them funny.

Re: LAN-LOK: The Antarctic DOS Sabotage Game Lost for 34 Years

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Post by l23k4 »

timschmidt wrote: post #14
l23k4 wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Come on, try and imagine the human being who would write that sentence. The article is obviously AI written in its entirety. I mean look at this sentence which randomly contains the " - " pattern twice in a row, which is then not repeated once anywhere else in the article: > Created after the installation of the station’s first peer-to-peer local area network (PalmerLAN), the game captures - through humor, satire, an…

Using dashes twice like that is valid. It's a bit like parentheses, to frame a tangential statement between them, but with emphasis instead of quietly. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dash I use that construction in my totally human writing often enough. Some of us missed a few English classes it seems.

Are you seriously going to claim that this is not LLM generated?

https://alphapixeldev.com/what-is-a-mercenary-programmer-and...

The guys twitter account is full of LLM slop: https://x.com/alphapixel

Perhaps all these other posts from the same author in completely different styles are also not LLM generated? https://wildirismarketing.com/articles-and-blog-posts/

>I use that construction in my totally human writing often enough. Some of us missed a few English classes it seems.

I made no comment as to the validity of the construction.

Re: LAN-LOK: The Antarctic DOS Sabotage Game Lost for 34 Years

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Post by timschmidt »

l23k4 wrote: post #17
timschmidt wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Using dashes twice like that is valid. It's a bit like parentheses, to frame a tangential statement between them, but with emphasis instead of quietly. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dash I use that construction in my totally human writing often enough. Some of us missed a few English classes it seems.

Are you seriously going to claim that this is not LLM generated? https://alphapixeldev.com/what-is-a-mercenary-programmer-and... The guys twitter account is full of LLM slop: https://x.com/alphapixel Perhaps all these other posts from the same author in completely different styles are also not LLM generated? https://wildirismarketing.com/articles-and-blog-posts/ >I use that construction in my totally human writing of…

> Are you seriously going to claim that this is not LLM generated?

Do you see me making that claim? My comment seems to be about grammar. Do you always jump to conclusions?

> I made no comment as to the validity of the construction.

See:

> I mean look at this sentence which randomly contains the " - " pattern twice in a row

They're called parenthetical dashes. They're not random. And it's one pattern, not two. You'll find it used with parentheses (obviously) and commas as well as dashes and perhaps even other punctuation[1].

As to whether or not the post was written by AI, I don't care either way. That seems to be something you care about. But you shouldn't base those conclusions on the use of parenthetical dashes.

1: https://editorsmanual.com/articles/commas-vs-parentheses-vs-...

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