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I Could've Rickrolled the FIFA World Cup. All I Needed Was My ID

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Re: I Could've Rickrolled the FIFA World Cup. All I Needed Was My ID

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Post by gbalduzzi »

sevenzero wrote: post #19
albertgoeswoof wrote: post #16

Please stop using AI to write for you, it ruins what is otherwise a fascinating story, and on reflection I struggle to trust it. If you used AI to generate the blog post, did you use AI to generate the screenshots and story?

I remember a frontpage post from like 2 days ago: "If you want human attention show human effort" or something in that direction. I think this fits here just right.

I think in this case the human effort was put into the actual discovery, honestly I don't mind if AI helped him write the blog post if the result is enjoyable and not sloppy

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Post by tlogan »

BobDaHacker wrote: post #25
albertgoeswoof wrote: post #16

Please stop using AI to write for you, it ruins what is otherwise a fascinating story, and on reflection I struggle to trust it. If you used AI to generate the blog post, did you use AI to generate the screenshots and story?

Yeah I used Claude as a writing assistant for the initial draft. I'm autistic and long-form writing isn't my strong suit, getting a 4000 word blog post to flow well is genuinely hard for me. But I do edit it pretty heavily after, the voice and the jokes and the structure are mine, the AI just helps me get a baseline down so I'm not staring at a blank page. The research, the screenshots, the disclosure, that's all me.…

My opinion is that this is a great story.

But the haters are going to hate.

If you had not used AI to fix your post, I bet the top post will be complaining about your grammar.

Some people will always find something negative. Simple as that.

Re: I Could've Rickrolled the FIFA World Cup. All I Needed Was My ID

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Post by maciekkmrk »

BobDaHacker wrote: post #25
albertgoeswoof wrote: post #16

Please stop using AI to write for you, it ruins what is otherwise a fascinating story, and on reflection I struggle to trust it. If you used AI to generate the blog post, did you use AI to generate the screenshots and story?

Yeah I used Claude as a writing assistant for the initial draft. I'm autistic and long-form writing isn't my strong suit, getting a 4000 word blog post to flow well is genuinely hard for me. But I do edit it pretty heavily after, the voice and the jokes and the structure are mine, the AI just helps me get a baseline down so I'm not staring at a blank page. The research, the screenshots, the disclosure, that's all me.…

I understand that it feels helpful but the post ends up repeating the same insight over and over. Reads very sloppy, while you wanted the opposite.

Re: I Could've Rickrolled the FIFA World Cup. All I Needed Was My ID

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Post by AdminAccount »

sevenzero wrote: post #19
albertgoeswoof wrote: post #16

Please stop using AI to write for you, it ruins what is otherwise a fascinating story, and on reflection I struggle to trust it. If you used AI to generate the blog post, did you use AI to generate the screenshots and story?

I remember a frontpage post from like 2 days ago: "If you want human attention show human effort" or something in that direction. I think this fits here just right.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48497609

Re: I Could've Rickrolled the FIFA World Cup. All I Needed Was My ID

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Post by gbalduzzi »

llbbdd wrote: post #24
pqs wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

These comments don't help much. AI is here, not everybody can write well, AI is gonna be used.

The problem is that people who are bad writers have trouble understanding that AI writes worse than they do

you clearly have never read a 1000 word text written by me (/s, but only partially)

Re: I Could've Rickrolled the FIFA World Cup. All I Needed Was My ID

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Post by bcraven »

mdrzn wrote: post #49
V__ wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I am curious, what exactly triggers your AI senses in this post?

"This wasn't some dev environment. This wasn't test data." It's not X, it's Y. And repetitions of three.

Gemini loves talking about "The Nuclear Option" too

Re: I Could've Rickrolled the FIFA World Cup. All I Needed Was My ID

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Post by drra »

mdrzn wrote: post #49
V__ wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I am curious, what exactly triggers your AI senses in this post?

"This wasn't some dev environment. This wasn't test data." It's not X, it's Y. And repetitions of three.

I found myself writing exactly like this for a while after reading pages and pages of this special construct before my bs detector understood what it is...

Re: I Could've Rickrolled the FIFA World Cup. All I Needed Was My ID

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Post by Abimelex »

mdrzn wrote: post #49
V__ wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I am curious, what exactly triggers your AI senses in this post?

"This wasn't some dev environment. This wasn't test data." It's not X, it's Y. And repetitions of three.

Thats a literary style called anaphora. Some people learned this in school, so they can use it to emphasize something. IMHO this is not a strong sign of AI, in fact I think this text has no strong AI indicators.
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