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A big problem I see constantly is the mindset that it's "wisdom". It's audible in the voice every speaker that thinks it true. No matter when it's said, no matter how many self-aware disclaimers precede it, it comes out annoying as hell (e.g. Lex Fridman). Some people, even when they know they're are doing it, can't stop themselves.
In many companies (especially in non-tech departments) there’s a culture where the first person to speak up is given credit for an idea as the “visionary”, even if they have no skills to actually implement it. In those environments, speaking loudly and often allows one to “lay claim” to an idea. This can be beneficial as a way to control workload, if you “claim” the idea first, you can control people’s expectations a…
Who deserves praise?
What spark here deserves to grow?
What new thing am I trying myself?
Who left today better because I showed up?
What's something I (personally) could have improved?
What mistake or new facts have I learned from/ widened by view?Earlier quoted context omitted.
"AI detectors" are snake oil. https://mitsloanedtech.mit.edu/ai/teach/ai-detectors-dont-wo...
1. I determined the post was AI myself. The detector was merely to satisfy someone disingenuously asking for "proof". 2. This one works. It's peer-reviewed.
It may benchmark well, but in the wild none are much better than coin flip. A quick Google search shows that Pangram's weakness is "false positives on creative writing", and that it's trivially fooled.
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That might be because the thing is whole-cloth generated from AI, but given that the author has a .in email address, it also might be that English is not their first language but they want to reach a broader audience with their message so they used AI to translate it into the lingua franca of modern technical and scientific discussion (which is, this is always funny to me, not franca ). AI generators do a better job…
Indians write english just fine.
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But you got downvoted for pointing out that it was slop. I got similarly downvoted a couple days ago. Hackernews folk seem uninterested in having it pointed out when AI is being used to generate posts.
I'd guess it's some combination of a) they like using AI themselves, and b) they can't distinguish AI themselves. And they turn to all manner of excuse like "AI detectors do not work" or "non-native speakers need a way to produce articles, too". It's a crappy time to be a humanist, or really to care about anything, it seems.
Sometimes not speaking up is the best thing for future situations. Other times, it's too costly to not speak up, and what should follow is the speaker making right by their words: action.