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Re: Telegram Serverless

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This is off-topic, but I was kind of surprised to see this page written by Claude. I guess I shouldn't really be surprised, but I somehow didn't expect it.

Out of curiosity - how did you figure this out? I cannot find any hints about that. Was it the language used?

I often see replies to AI-generated posts being pointed out here asking what makes it obvious. Is it that difficult to notice the indicators? Is it mostly undetected by English-as-a-second-language speakers, people inexperienced with generative AI, or is it something else?

Re: Telegram Serverless

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post #2

This is off-topic, but I was kind of surprised to see this page written by Claude. I guess I shouldn't really be surprised, but I somehow didn't expect it.

Out of curiosity - how did you figure this out? I cannot find any hints about that. Was it the language used?

language, structure. look how much negation there is. the construction "no A, no B, no, C" is used several times.

or another example, the following sentence:

"handlers/ is flat — no subdirectories"

who writes like this? you'd just write "handlers/ is a flat folder" or similar.

Re: Telegram Serverless

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telegram is full of bots and spam. before it was a better WhatsApp alternative. now either WhatsApp or Signal.

They should start charging for it. Like not a lot, maybe just a coffee a month. That should keep the bots away.

Re: Telegram Serverless

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telegram is full of bots and spam. before it was a better WhatsApp alternative. now either WhatsApp or Signal.

those bots are different to these ones, for these you have to start the interaction. bots is the most useful feature of telegram

Re: Telegram Serverless

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post #5
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This is off-topic, but I was kind of surprised to see this page written by Claude. I guess I shouldn't really be surprised, but I somehow didn't expect it.

Out of curiosity - how did you figure this out? I cannot find any hints about that. Was it the language used?

"it doesn't silently go unnoticed", "would be silently inert", "instead of silently overwriting", "you can never silently overwrite"

The biggest tell for me is overuse of the term "silently". "quietly" is another one you often see from Claude in particular. Models love adverbs for whatever reason, whereas a human writer would use them in moderation for emphasis or prefer terms like "by accident".

Re: Telegram Serverless

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telegram is full of bots and spam. before it was a better WhatsApp alternative. now either WhatsApp or Signal.

I use Telegram only for groups with people I know. I've got zero issues with boths.

Are you using public channels? (are those even a thing with Telegram?)

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