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I almost got hacked by a 'job interview'

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Re: I almost got hacked by a 'job interview'

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Post by baubino »

raw_anon_1111 wrote: post #366
c0nsumer wrote: post #285

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm regularly asked by coworkers why I don't run my writing through AI tools to clean it up and instead spend a time iterating over it, re-reading, perhaps with a basic spell checker and maybe grammar check. That's because, from what I've seen to date, it'd take away my voice. And my voice -- the style in which I write -- is my value. It's the same as with art... Yes, AI tools can produce passable art, but it feels s…

I consider myself to be an above average writer and a great editor. I will just throw my random thoughts about something that happened at work, ask ChatGPT to keep digging deeper in my question, I will give it my opinion of what I should do. Ask it to give me the “devil’s advocate” and the “steel man opinion” and then ask it to write a blog post [1]. I then edit it for tone, get rid of some of the obvious AI tells. M…

> By the time I’m done, it sounds like I something I would write.

As a writer myself, this sounds incredibly depressing to me. The way I get to something sounding like something I would write is to write it, which in turn is what makes me a writer.

What you’re doing sounds very productive for producing a text but it’s not something you’ve actually written.

Re: I almost got hacked by a 'job interview'

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Post by fijiaarone »

Wowfunhappy wrote: post #233

This article is so interesting, but I can’t shake the feeling it was written by AI. The writing style has that feel for me. Maybe that shouldn’t bother me? Like, maybe the author would never have had time to write this otherwise, and I would never have learned about his experience. But I can't help wishing he'd just written about it himself. Maybe that's unreasonable--I shouldn't expect people to do extra work for fr…

Close, it’s fiction. Reads more like Shiner than Gibson.

Re: I almost got hacked by a 'job interview'

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Post by kenjackson »

cddotdotslash wrote: post #252
Wowfunhappy wrote: post #233

This article is so interesting, but I can’t shake the feeling it was written by AI. The writing style has that feel for me. Maybe that shouldn’t bother me? Like, maybe the author would never have had time to write this otherwise, and I would never have learned about his experience. But I can't help wishing he'd just written about it himself. Maybe that's unreasonable--I shouldn't expect people to do extra work for fr…

It’s incredibly annoying to read. So many super short sentences with the “not just X. Also Y” format. Little hooks like “The attack vector?” “Not fancy security tools. Not expensive antivirus software. Just asking my coding assistant…” I actually feel like AI articles are becoming easier to spot. Maybe we’re all just collectively noticing the patterns.

Honestly, the issue is that most people are poor writers. Even “good” professional writing, like the NY Times science section, can be so convoluted. AI writing is predictable now, but generally better than most human writing. Yet can be an irritating at the same time.

Re: I almost got hacked by a 'job interview'

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Post by ashirviskas »

nicce wrote: post #349
zem wrote: post #336

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they may be self aware but if they're into blockchain they're unlikely to be scam aware!

Or they think that they are smarter than others, and could make a profit with the scammy market…

Or for them it is just another job that pays the bills and they really like working on interesting problems, as opposed to the "stable" corporate jobs.

/jk, who would fall for that lol? /jk/jk Source: I work in blockchain, you can easily dox me in a single google search

Re: I almost got hacked by a 'job interview'

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Post by smcin »

6c696e7578 wrote: post #12

> Last week, I got a LinkedIn message Are there any moderators left at LinkedIn?

The profile named by the OP has been taken down since.

Don't expect LinkedIn to care much about policing messages or paid invitations; and many profiles are fake. At most, you report people and if they LI enough complaints they take the profile down. (Presumably the scammers just create another profile.) I think LI would care much more about being paid with a bad CC.

I suspect LI is doing AI moderation by this point. Maybe we could complain to their customer-service AI about their moderation AI...

Re: I almost got hacked by a 'job interview'

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Post by baobun »

nticompass wrote: post #53

I've gotten my fair share of fake job interview emails. I don't think any have ever tried to get me to download/run some code. Mostly, I think they are just trying to phish for information or get me to join their Slack. I remember replying to a "recruiter" that I thought was legit. I told him my salary requirements and my skill set and even gave him a copy of my resume. I think that was the "scam" though. I gave a pr…

> Obviously, those are fake.

Not necessarily fake. They might get you in trouble though (facilitating circumventions of sanctions when those workers turn out to be North Korea or in Iran is no joke). They might also be dual-use (do the job and everything as promised while also using it for offensive operations).

Re: I almost got hacked by a 'job interview'

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Post by nytesky »

Wowfunhappy wrote: post #233

This article is so interesting, but I can’t shake the feeling it was written by AI. The writing style has that feel for me. Maybe that shouldn’t bother me? Like, maybe the author would never have had time to write this otherwise, and I would never have learned about his experience. But I can't help wishing he'd just written about it himself. Maybe that's unreasonable--I shouldn't expect people to do extra work for fr…

My daughter feels all my writing naturally sounds like AI, even my college papers from 30 years ago. Maybe author has similar issue?

Re: I almost got hacked by a 'job interview'

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Post by raw_anon_1111 »

baubino wrote: post #391
raw_anon_1111 wrote: post #366

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I consider myself to be an above average writer and a great editor. I will just throw my random thoughts about something that happened at work, ask ChatGPT to keep digging deeper in my question, I will give it my opinion of what I should do. Ask it to give me the “devil’s advocate” and the “steel man opinion” and then ask it to write a blog post [1]. I then edit it for tone, get rid of some of the obvious AI tells. M…

> By the time I’m done, it sounds like I something I would write. As a writer myself, this sounds incredibly depressing to me. The way I get to something sounding like something I would write is to write it, which in turn is what makes me a writer. What you’re doing sounds very productive for producing a text but it’s not something you’ve actually written.

I write to communicate with myself or other people. Just like I use AI to go from I need to do $X based on my ideas and designs to I did $x. It’s not about “art” or “passion”. It’s about a paycheck

Re: I almost got hacked by a 'job interview'

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Post by croes »

exe34 wrote: post #99
croes wrote: post #90

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Is it even possible to look at all dependencies and their dependencies and their dependencies…?

if you use simple c libraries that do one thing, yes, you don't have to go very far at all. whether you'd be able to find the backdoor in those or not, might depend on your skills as a security expert.

Could luck as a web dev with all those npm packages
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