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function getRandomNumber() { return 4 }
Prove to me that it's not perfectly random.
It is perfectly random for some distributions
You did this with an AI and you do not understand what you're doing here
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Unfortunately that seems to be the norm now – people literally reduce themselves to a copy-paste mechanism.
This resonates a lot with some observations I drafted last week about "AI Slop" at the workplace. Overall, people are making a net-negative contribution by not having a sense of when to review/filter the responses generated by AI tools, because either (i) someone else is required to make that additional effort, or (ii) the problem is not solved properly. This sounds similar to a few patterns I noted - The average len…
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The '—' gave it away. No one types this character on purpose.
And where did you suppose AIs learned this, if not from us? Turns out lots of us use dashes — and semicolons! And the word “the”! — and we’re going to stuff just because others don’t like punctuation.
I find it disturbing that many people don't seem to realize that chatbot output is forced into a strict format that it fills in recursively, because the patterns that LLMs recognize are no longer than a few paragraphs. Chatbots are choosing response templates based on the type of response that is being given. Many of those templates include unordered lists, and the unordered list marker that they chose was the em-dash.
If a chatbot had to write freely, it would be word salad by the end of the length of the average chatbot response. Even its "free" templates are templates (I'm sure stolen from the standard essay writing guides), and the last paragraph is always a call to further engagement.
Chatbots are tightly designed dopamine dispensers.
edit: even weirder is people who think they use em-dashes at the rate of chatbots (they don't) even thinking that what they read on the web uses em-dashes at the rate of chatbots (it doesn't.) Oh, maybe in print? No, chatbots use them more than even Spanish writing, and they use em-dashes for quotation marks. It's just the format. I'm sure they regret it, but what are they going to replace them with? Asterisks or en-dashes? Maybe emoticons.
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what are they even reffering to, what does AI stand for in relation to India?
"Actually Indians" was coined to refer to "AI" products which turn out to be outsourced human labor in disguise. Builder.ai was the most infamous example.
It's amazing to me that the human-labour-in-disguise thing was first reported in 2019, but the company only went bankrupt in 2025.
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#235This example is much worse:
https://hackerone.com/reports/2298307
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#236Earlier quoted context omitted.
what are they even reffering to, what does AI stand for in relation to India?
"Actually Indians" was coined to refer to "AI" products which turn out to be outsourced human labor in disguise. Builder.ai was the most infamous example.
The idea that Builder.ai was Indian workers being sold as AI wasn’t true, by the way. That was made up by a crypto influencer on twitter and copied by sloppy news sites. They were a consulting firm that also sold an AI product, with the two clearly separated.
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#237Earlier quoted context omitted.
"Actually Indians" was coined to refer to "AI" products which turn out to be outsourced human labor in disguise. Builder.ai was the most infamous example.
It's amazing to me that the human-labour-in-disguise thing was first reported in 2019, but the company only went bankrupt in 2025.
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#238I wonder where the balance of “Actual time saved for me” vs “Everyone else's time wasted” lies in this technological “revolution”.
You're doing it wrong: You should just feed other peoples AI-generated responses into your own AI tools and let the tool answer for you! The loop is then closed, no human time wasted, and the only effect is wasted energy to run the AI tools. It's the perfect business model to turn energy into money.
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#239"I heard you were extremely quick at math" Me: "yes, as a matter of fact I am" Interviewer: "Whats 14x27" Me: "49" Interviewer: "that's not even close" me: "yeah, but it was fast"
There should be a language that uses "Almost-In-Time" compilation. If it runs out of time, it just gives a random answer.
Soft real time systems often work like that. "Can't complete in time, best I can do is X".