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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 gspr »

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.…

Don't take my criticism of AI writing as criticism of your work. This is stellar stuff! What I'm trying to say is I'd really like to hear it in your words.

I'm glad to hear the voice is yours, and I apologize for assume it was the AI's.

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

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Post by gspr »

tlogan wrote: post #52
BobDaHacker wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

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

I'm positive that a post complaining about the grammar would've been (rightfully) downvoted to oblivion on this site.

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

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Post by ipdashc »

jdw64 wrote: post #23

I don't understand why people obsess over LLM(AI)format. The content is interesting, but they dismiss it just because the format is an issue. All of this content is worth reading and is good. And it's about security.

It's really annoying. Honestly I'm impressed how quickly one becomes able to smell it after seeing enough of it, I feel like a year or two ago everyone thought LLM bots would be forever indistinguishable from real users (and in fairness, the well-managed ones probably are).

No hate on the author, but LLMs just have such an annoying and overdramatic way of phrasing things. The content is worth reading, I enjoyed it! It would just be even better if it hadn't been turned into such a slog to read through.

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

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Post by jdw64 »

ipdashc wrote: post #73
jdw64 wrote: post #23

I don't understand why people obsess over LLM(AI)format. The content is interesting, but they dismiss it just because the format is an issue. All of this content is worth reading and is good. And it's about security.

It's really annoying. Honestly I'm impressed how quickly one becomes able to smell it after seeing enough of it, I feel like a year or two ago everyone thought LLM bots would be forever indistinguishable from real users (and in fairness, the well-managed ones probably are). No hate on the author, but LLMs just have such an annoying and overdramatic way of phrasing things. The content is worth reading, I enjoyed it! I…

I agree. Stylistically, there are parts that really rub me the wrong way as a person

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

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Post by [deleted] »

divan wrote: post #35
rectang wrote: post #26

> Client says "access denied" > Server says "here's everything" hahahaha > Hire me (just kidding... unless?) FIFA is a legendarily awful organization. In my weaker moments reading your piece I thought to myself how nice it would have been if someone more ruthless than you had been made an example of them.

To be fair FIFA is one of the best international federations in terms of good governance. Dutch sport think-tank Play The Game has an assestment methodology and the project called "Sports Governance Observer" and did asses FIFA in 2018 [1] FIFA gets disproportionate amount of attention and, ofc, high-level corruption scandals, but I would say it's more like a by-product of the sheer scale of the football, and not a p…

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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 jansan »

Cider9986 wrote: post #77
jansan wrote: post #12

> Replace that, and every TV network receiving the FIFA feed shows whatever you pushed. Holy shit, Rickrolling is among the more harmless things you could have done with that.

What's the most harmful thing you could do?

Are you trying to trick me into writing something here that I would later regret?

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

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Post by BrandoElFollito »

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.

Ah la la, this is something I actually write sometimes. And em-dashes.

This hunt for AI is sometimes counterproductive

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