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I Could've Rickrolled the FIFA World Cup. All I Needed Was My ID

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Re: I Could've Rickrolled the FIFA World Cup. All I Needed Was My ID

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Thats a literary style called anaphora. Some people learned this in school, so they can use it to emphasize something. IMHO this is not a strong sign of AI, in fact I think this text has no strong AI indicators.

Thank you for speaking up -- I feel the same way.

Same, and I'm growing tired of the witch hunt comments derailing the topic.

For example, why is this thread the top thread in this post?

Re: I Could've Rickrolled the FIFA World Cup. All I Needed Was My ID

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"This wasn't some dev environment. This wasn't test data." It's not X, it's Y. And repetitions of three.

It's honestly unbelievable how people continue to paste stuff like this. Do they not know that credibility is lost instantly?

I love how in one post everyone piles on someone for using the word "retarded", meanwhile in another post someone with autism gets piled on for using AI for accessibility.

Re: I Could've Rickrolled the FIFA World Cup. All I Needed Was My ID

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Please stop using AI to write for you, it ruins what is otherwise a fascinating story, and on reflection I struggle to trust it. If you used AI to generate the blog post, did you use AI to generate the screenshots and story?

Yeah I used Claude as a writing assistant for the initial draft. I'm autistic and long-form writing isn't my strong suit, getting a 4000 word blog post to flow well is genuinely hard for me. But I do edit it pretty heavily after, the voice and the jokes and the structure are mine, the AI just helps me get a baseline down so I'm not staring at a blank page. The research, the screenshots, the disclosure, that's all me.…

> I'm autistic and long-form writing isn't my strong suit, getting a 4000 word blog post to flow well is genuinely hard for me.

I find the way I interact with the world is exceptionally different from the descriptions of everybody else. Some of the symptoms of such manifest as difficulty communicating... with most people.

There are a subset of people who I have not only no problem, but seemingly a drastically increased information exchange rate.

Do with that observation what you will, but I don't write for the lowest common denominator, the preferred style of AI, because I don't write for the people who cant be bothered to understand me. I'm writing for people like me.

n.b. Maybe you are writing for the lowest common denominator. In which case, say that: "Yeah I know it sounds like AI but it's supposed to be advertising, not a technical white paper or PoC"

> the AI just helps me get a baseline down so I'm not staring at a blank page.

If this was true, the top comment wouldn't be a complaint about how the voice of the article sounds "inauthenticlly human" or like an LLM. It's having a stronger influence on your writing than you're giving it credit for. It's on you to decide if or how much you care, but ideally you wouldn't be lying to either yourself or your readers.

Re: I Could've Rickrolled the FIFA World Cup. All I Needed Was My ID

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> Hire me (just kidding... unless?) Would you really want to work for one of the world’s most notoriously corrupt organizations?

I am not much of a football gal myself, so I didn't know they were a shitty org.

I don't follow football in the slightest, but these have been major media stories. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015_FIFA_corruption_case

Not saying "you should have heard of it", just giving info.

The US DOJ investigation found over $150 million in bribes and kickbacks over two decades. This led to dozens of criminal indictments, and ongoing legal battles over the recovery of stolen funds.

But maybe they've resolved that now and are a changed organization? Oh wait, this is the organization that made up a "peace prize" to give to a certain Donald Trump, to make up for the Nobel committee's completely inexplicable refusal to award their Peace Prize to the guy who started a pointless war with Iran that plunged the world into economic chaos. It'd be hilarious, if it weren't so sleazy, sad, and depressing.

Long story short, if FIFA offered you a cybersecurity job tomorrow, you should do a lot of due diligence before accepting.

Re: I Could've Rickrolled the FIFA World Cup. All I Needed Was My ID

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post #49

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"This wasn't some dev environment. This wasn't test data." It's not X, it's Y. And repetitions of three.

Thats a literary style called anaphora. Some people learned this in school, so they can use it to emphasize something. IMHO this is not a strong sign of AI, in fact I think this text has no strong AI indicators.

You sure about that?

https://github.com/blader/humanizer/blob/main/SKILL.md

P.S. Claude produced the initial text. :^)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48551441

Re: I Could've Rickrolled the FIFA World Cup. All I Needed Was My ID

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I am curious, what exactly triggers your AI senses in this post?

"This wasn't some dev environment. This wasn't test data." It's not X, it's Y. And repetitions of three.

What do you think why AI uses that pattern so often?

Could it be in the human generated training data?

Seems like a logical fallacy. Just because AI uses that pattern doesn’t mean that pattern means AI

Re: I Could've Rickrolled the FIFA World Cup. All I Needed Was My ID

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"This wasn't some dev environment. This wasn't test data." It's not X, it's Y. And repetitions of three.

Gemini loves talking about "The Nuclear Option" too

You've hit a classic "gotcha".
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