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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 malcolmxxx »

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.

Maybe he just want to summarize things. I'm writing in Spanish. Of course I won't let AI to write this very post ---even in my bad E. But there are things in my Obsidian written in Spanish, by AI. They're sounds like nothing, sometimes you need something to sound that way: informative, aseptical. But it is good to hear about you anyway, when some people thinks, or fake they think, AI can write, let's say, fiction.

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

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Post by SteveLauC »

codingdave wrote: post #174

I'm seeing red flags all over the story. "Blockchain" being the first one. The use cases for that are so small, it is a red flag in and of itself. Then asking you to run code before a meeting? No, that doesn't "save time", that is driving you to take actions when you don't yet know who is asking. Still, I appreciate the write-up. It is a great example of a clever attack, and I'm going to watch out more for such thing…

> Then asking you to run code before a meeting? No, that doesn't "save time", that is driving you to take actions when you don't yet know who is asking.

Great point, thanks for sharing!

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

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Post by csin »

Jerry2 wrote: post #370
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…

> but I can’t shake the feeling it was written by AI. After I read this article, I thought this whole incident is fabricated and created as a way to go viral on tech sites. One immediate red flag was: why would someone go to these lengths to hack a freelancer who's clearly not rich and doesn't have millions in his cryptowallet. And how did they know he used Windows? Many devs don't. Ah, you might say, maybe he is jus…

It's a thing. Google "fake job interview crypto hacks".

It's been a thing for a while. I saw the title, was like "Hmm, Hacker News is actually late to the party for once".

I think I first heard about it on Coffeezilla video or something.

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

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Post by mvdtnz »

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 has many of the hallmarks of AI prose. It's amazing to me that people can't spot this stuff just by feel alone,

* Not X. Not Y. Just Z.

* The X? A Y. ("The scary part? This attack vector is perfect for developers.", "The attack vector? A fake coding interview from")

* The X was Y. Z. (one-word adjectives here).

* Here's the kicker.

* Bullet points with a bold phrase starting each line.

The weird thing is that before LLMs no one wrote like this. Where did they all get it from?

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

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Post by atomlib »

DavidDodda wrote: post #249
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…

that was the case. you can find the base write up and the prompt used in one of my comments on this post. i did not have much time to work on this at all, being in the middle of a product launch at my work, and a bunch of other 'life' stuff. thanks for understanding.

> i did not have much time to work on this at all

From your other comment:

> this went though 11 different versions before reaching this point

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45594554

Seriously, just do things yourself next time. You aren't going to improve unless you always ride with training wheels. Plus, it seems you saved no time with AI at all.

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

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Post by bix6 »

layman51 wrote: post #426
blindriver wrote: post #410

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 a…

Is this confirmed? I always thought premium overrode anyone’s privacy. The page doesn’t explicitly say.

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

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Post by csin »

rdtsc wrote: post #273
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…

> This article is so incredibly interesting, but I can’t shake the feeling it was written by AI. The writing style has all the telltale signs. The sadder realization is that after enough AI slop around, real people will start talking like AI. This will just become the new standard communication style.

Chatgpt is just an aggregate of how the terminally online, talk, when they have to act professional.

Chatgpt is hardcoded to not be rude (or German So when you say, "people will start talking like AI". They are already doing that in professional settings. They are the training data.

As someone who writes with swear words and personality. I think this era is amazing for me. Before, I was seen as rude and unprofessional. Now, I feel like I have a leg up, over all this AI slop.

Authenticity is valued now. Swearing is in vogue.

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

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Post by Archonical »

bix6 wrote: post #437
layman51 wrote: post #426

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 a…

Is this confirmed? I always thought premium overrode anyone’s privacy. The page doesn’t explicitly say.

I have premium. I can confirm this. Whatever your private browsing page shows is what I see. If you're fully private, all that registers is that someone has looked at my profile but nothing identifying, just a bump in profile views.
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