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Re: You did this with an AI and you do not understand what you're doing here

#491
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Wow even the followup response apologising for noise was full of noise. It finishes "I can follow up ... blah blah blah ... should I find an issue" Tone deaf and utterly infuriating.

Gaslighting at scale

GaaS, I like it!

Re: You did this with an AI and you do not understand what you're doing here

#492
post #454

I wonder what's going on in the minds of these people. I would just be terribly embarrassed and not be able to look at myself in the mirror if I did shit like this. > batuhanilgarr posted a comment (6 days ago) Thanks for the quick review. You’re right ... On one hand, it's sort of surprising that they double down, copy and paste the response to the llm prompt, paste back that response and hope for the best. But, of…

This one is fun: https://hackerone.com/reports/2981245

> submitter: After thinking it through, I’m really sad to say that I’m not comfortable with disclosing the report . I’d prefer to keep it private . I hope this doesn’t cause any issues, and I appreciate your understanding."

> bagder: I am willing to give you some time to think about your life choices, but I am going to disclose this report later. For human kind, for research, for everyone to learn. Including you.

> submitter: After thinking it over, I’ve decided I’m okay with disclosing the report. Honestly, the best way for me and others to learn is by learning from our mistakes, and I think sharing this will help .

Re: You did this with an AI and you do not understand what you're doing here

#493

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[As an English typer] Where is this compose key on my keyboard? (This is a vaguely Socratic answer to the question of why the compose key is not more often used.)

It’s not mapped to any key by default. A common choice is the right alt key. I wrote a short guide about it last year: https://whynothugo.nl/journal/2024/07/12/typing-non-english-...

My personal preference is the capslock key. I'm not using it for anything anyway

Re: You did this with an AI and you do not understand what you're doing here

#494
post #483

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But the meta singal you get is detrimental to the writer, so why wouldn't they want to mask it?

Security and ethics. If those don't apply, as mentioned, if I realize I will as mentioned also ignore them if I can and judge their future communications as malicious, incompetent, inconsiderate, and/or meaningless.

But if they are using it for copywriting/grammar edits, how would you know? For instance, have I used AI to help correct grammar for these repilies?

Re: You did this with an AI and you do not understand what you're doing here

#495

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But the meta singal you get is detrimental to the writer, so why wouldn't they want to mask it?

If I think you're fluent, I might think you're an idiot when really you just don't understand. If I know they struggle with English, I can simplify my vocabulary, speak slower/enunciate, and check in occasionally to make sure I'm communicating in a way they can follow.

Both of those options are exactly what the writer wants to avoid though, and the reason they are using AI for grammar correction in the first place.

Re: You did this with an AI and you do not understand what you're doing here

#496
post #414

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To be honest, I do not understand this new norm. A few months ago I applied to an internal position. I was a NGO IT worker, deployed twice to emergency response operations, knew the policies & operations and had good relations with users and coworkers. The interview went well. I was honest. When asked what my weakness regarding this position I told that I am a good analyst but when it comes to writing new exploits, t…

I posted a job for freelance dev work and all replies were obviously ai generated. Some even included websites that were clearly made by other people as their 'prior work'. So I pulled the posting and probably won't post again. Who knew. AI is costing jobs, not because it can do the jobs, but it has made hiring actual competent humans harder.

This is why AI will never replace staffing agencies :)

Re: You did this with an AI and you do not understand what you're doing here

#497

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I’m guessing this list is defined by Mac users who all got taught em dash somewhere similar or for similar reasons. It is only easy to use on a Mac. But I wonder what is the 2nd common influence of users using it?

Or, you know — iOS. That’s huge marketshare for a keyboard that automatically converts -- to —

You can also hold down the hyphen key and select it from the popup menu. En dash lives there, too.

Re: You did this with an AI and you do not understand what you're doing here

#498
post #279

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The compose key feels mandatory for anyone who wants to type their native langauge on an US-english layout. The combination[0] is "Compose--." though: – [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compose_key#Common_compose_com...

“Compose--.” produces an en dash , not an em dash. An em dash is produced by “Compose---”. Source: grep -e DASH /usr/share/X11/locale/*/Compose

Whoops, yep that's the one

Re: You did this with an AI and you do not understand what you're doing here

#499

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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-das…

Do you have a pointer to documentation on that, or a keyword to google? Would like to find out more.

Re: You did this with an AI and you do not understand what you're doing here

#500
post #454

I wonder what's going on in the minds of these people. I would just be terribly embarrassed and not be able to look at myself in the mirror if I did shit like this. > batuhanilgarr posted a comment (6 days ago) Thanks for the quick review. You’re right ... On one hand, it's sort of surprising that they double down, copy and paste the response to the llm prompt, paste back that response and hope for the best. But, of…

This one is fun: https://hackerone.com/reports/2981245 > submitter: After thinking it through, I’m really sad to say that I’m not comfortable with disclosing the report . I’d prefer to keep it private . I hope this doesn’t cause any issues, and I appreciate your understanding." > bagder: I am willing to give you some time to think about your life choices, but I am going to disclose this report later. For human kind,…

A good one! I like how Daniel pretended like not disclosing it was an option just to show their reaction.

> "the best way for me and others to learn is by learning from our mistakes, and I think sharing this will help"

I guess it worked, that's their only hackerone report they made from that account.

Well, in reality the probably abandoned it, created another account and continued on with the script.

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