This could be a case of stolen or completely made up identity. This scam has a very distinctive Russian style. I wouldn't be surprised if people behind this scam are Russians. Organising this kind of scams has become very popular in Russia in the recent years. You can easily guess why, their country won't cooperate with the Western or any other law enforcement. They also viciously hate Ukrainians; also, pretending to be Ukrainian who are usually perceived positively and trustworthy is a tactic Russian scammers could be using.
I almost got hacked by a 'job interview'
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Re: I almost got hacked by a 'job interview'
#422This 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…
The era of the AI bubble economy has arrived, and now almost everyone is interacting with and using AI. Just like your feeling, this is an article organized with GPT. Perhaps the story really happened.
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#423Re: I almost got hacked by a 'job interview'
#424This 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…
I’d personally like to see these posts banned / flagged out of existence (AI posts, not the parent post). It’s sort of the personal equivalent of tacky content marketing. Usually you’d never see an empty marketing post on the front page, even before AI when a marketer wrote them. Now the same sort of spammy language is accessible to everyone, it shouldn’t be a reason for such posts to be better tolerated
oh wait flagging doesn't mean book mark.....
TIL
I need to do some reversals...
Re: I almost got hacked by a 'job interview'
#425Earlier 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…
I dont buy it can tell if something sounds ai. Multiple times i have given it direct ai slop writing and it could not tell it was ai written. As a matter of fact, it would insist it wasnt. This flow sounds like what an intern did in pr reviews and it made me want to throw something out a window. Please just use your own words. They are good words and much better words than you may think.
https://chatgpt.com/share/68f065f4-f5ac-8010-81c1-faf4218e5c...
https://chatgpt.com/share/68f0666a-2bf0-8010-9d35-2ac4bdc870...
This article was dated as being written in 2020
https://chatgpt.com/share/68f06775-c570-8010-af7b-29531a22fd...
Original article
https://www.yourmembership.com/blog/tips-effective-board-mee...
I can’t share links from Gemini or Grok. But they both immediately flagged the first one as AI generated and the second most likely human.
I didn’t actually do anything here except told ChatGPT to rewrite it in the form of an article I found from an old PDF “97 Things a software engineer should know” from 2010, then ask Grok did it sound AI generated (it did), ask Grok to rewrite it to remove tell tale signs (it still kept the em dashes) and then I copied it ba k to ChatGPT.
https://chatgpt.com/share/68f06cec-3a20-8010-8178-a69695db16...
With some human editing to make it sound less douchery or better prompting, do you think you could tell?
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#426Earlier quoted context omitted.
You can change a setting so that you only show up as a view but not who you are.
Unless they pay for it and then they can see everyone who clicks on your profile again.
I don't think this is accurate. I believe if you go into your privacy settings, you can put yourself into a semi-private or a private mode so that your views aren't shown even when you click to view someone who is a LinkedIn Premium member. However, the big disadvantage is that when you put yourself in a private mode, if you are a non-subscribed user, you will not have access to these analytics for your own profile at all.
This is covered in this help article, especially the bullet points at the end[0].
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#427Earlier quoted context omitted.
thanks for the feedback. just fyi - this went though 11 different versions before reaching this point. so I am not able to share the full chat because i used Claude with google docs integration. but hears the google doc i started with https://docs.google.com/document/d/1of_uWXw-CppnFtWoehIrr1ir... this and the following prompt ``` 'help me turn this into a blog post. keep things interesting, also make sure you take a…
> You are an AI Bot that is very good at mimicking an author writing style. - Your goal is to write content with the tone that is described below Genuine question: does this formulation style work better than a plain, direct "Mimick my writing style. Use the tone that is described below"?
It should.
I haven't updated this prompt in like a year or so. I actually made it for Claude 3.
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#428Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
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 said almost exactly that to a coworker a few hours ago. My writing is me, it’s who I am. But I know that is not true for everyone, and in particular non-native speakers.
I just detest that AI writing style, especially for business writing. It’s the kind of writing that leaves the reader less informed for the effort.
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#429Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yes, it's an informative and important article. I think the complaints here are absurd. Hopefully the people not reading it for silly reasons won't become the victims of similar social engineering.
I find all the whining about the AI help to be far more annoying and distracting than the AI itself
Agree. People need to chill out. I thought there might be some discussion in the comments about the scam. Unfortunately, no. Complete waste of time to read and much more annoying than the original article.
Re: I almost got hacked by a 'job interview'
#430This 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…
The first paragraph feels like a parody of one of the LinkedIn marketing professional that receives a valuable insight from a toddler when their pet goldfish was run over by a car.
ok, that made me laugh