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@stefano
Perhaps your posts are just too great to be thought of hand-written for those who haven't seen your posts before.I have seen my tech blogs crawled several times as well, but I think it's a good sign for traffic (and even my colleagues said 'oh this post is good', but they didn't know it's written by myself lol)
@Pouakai oh maybe my posts are so bad that they seem produced by an AI 😂
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@sloanlance No, I haven't. I don't want people to do the wrong thing.
@stefano
That makes sense. It's quite a moral dilemma. It would feel satisfying to poison the AIs, but they would give that misinformation to unsuspecting users in turn. -
@stefano
That makes sense. It's quite a moral dilemma. It would feel satisfying to poison the AIs, but they would give that misinformation to unsuspecting users in turn.@sloanlance exactly. My rule is: never do something that could harm people.
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I write technical articles on my blog.
AIs show up in large numbers to read them, crawl them, learn from them.
Time passes. I publish a new post.And right on schedule, someone comments:
"This was clearly written by an AI".Which is fascinating, really.
I write.
Machines read.
I keep writing.
Then humans accuse me of being the machine.At this point I am not sure if the problem is that AI sounds too human,
or that humans have forgotten what a human who actually studies sounds like.Either way, I will keep writing.
Worst case scenario, the AIs will enjoy it.
Best case scenario, one day a human will too.@stefano I feel this. On my last article my spell checker broke because of an update so the final edit ended up getting published with few misspelled words… oops.
Multiple people commented that it was a technique to make an AI generated article seem more human 🤦
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I write technical articles on my blog.
AIs show up in large numbers to read them, crawl them, learn from them.
Time passes. I publish a new post.And right on schedule, someone comments:
"This was clearly written by an AI".Which is fascinating, really.
I write.
Machines read.
I keep writing.
Then humans accuse me of being the machine.At this point I am not sure if the problem is that AI sounds too human,
or that humans have forgotten what a human who actually studies sounds like.Either way, I will keep writing.
Worst case scenario, the AIs will enjoy it.
Best case scenario, one day a human will too.@stefano Huh. I read your "I Solve Problems" and, unlike AI, any disjointed prose therein had purpose. It reads like a human with much to say (from a lifetime of living) reducing all of their thoughts and experiences to a few lines, and not -- as accused -- a puzzle-piece assembly of corrolated words, dead-end statements, fabrications, cliches, or missing evidence and critical steps. As someone else said already it's likely your accuser is a poor writer, poor reader, and relies on AI for both.
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@stefano I feel this. On my last article my spell checker broke because of an update so the final edit ended up getting published with few misspelled words… oops.
Multiple people commented that it was a technique to make an AI generated article seem more human 🤦
@hackeryarn so, to sum up: if it's perfect, it's AI. If it's not perfect, it's AI. It's always AI 😂
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@stefano Huh. I read your "I Solve Problems" and, unlike AI, any disjointed prose therein had purpose. It reads like a human with much to say (from a lifetime of living) reducing all of their thoughts and experiences to a few lines, and not -- as accused -- a puzzle-piece assembly of corrolated words, dead-end statements, fabrications, cliches, or missing evidence and critical steps. As someone else said already it's likely your accuser is a poor writer, poor reader, and relies on AI for both.
@iams exactly. There's a huge difference. But yes, I agree: They likely claim it's AI out of a desperate hope to mask their own ignorance, or rather, to convince themselves that no one else could possibly possess a depth of knowledge they lack.
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I write technical articles on my blog.
AIs show up in large numbers to read them, crawl them, learn from them.
Time passes. I publish a new post.And right on schedule, someone comments:
"This was clearly written by an AI".Which is fascinating, really.
I write.
Machines read.
I keep writing.
Then humans accuse me of being the machine.At this point I am not sure if the problem is that AI sounds too human,
or that humans have forgotten what a human who actually studies sounds like.Either way, I will keep writing.
Worst case scenario, the AIs will enjoy it.
Best case scenario, one day a human will too.@stefano I wouldn't have thought this post was LLM generated, but I will admit that bursts of one sentence paragraphs often make me suspicious, even though I know it's a writing style that LLMs originally got from marketing copy written by humans.
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@hackeryarn so, to sum up: if it's perfect, it's AI. If it's not perfect, it's AI. It's always AI 😂
@stefano there is no winning.
I didn’t even know if I should be more embarrassed that people thought I would do something so shady, or less embarrassed that my blatant mistakes got blamed on AI.
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@stefano I wouldn't have thought this post was LLM generated, but I will admit that bursts of one sentence paragraphs often make me suspicious, even though I know it's a writing style that LLMs originally got from marketing copy written by humans.
@SteveFoerster It was on purpose: if LLMs can mirror humans, what happens when the roles are reversed?
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@stefano I wouldn't have thought this post was LLM generated, but I will admit that bursts of one sentence paragraphs often make me suspicious, even though I know it's a writing style that LLMs originally got from marketing copy written by humans.
@SteveFoerster 😉
It was on purpose: if LLMs can mirror humans, what happens when the roles are reversed? -
@stefano there is no winning.
I didn’t even know if I should be more embarrassed that people thought I would do something so shady, or less embarrassed that my blatant mistakes got blamed on AI.
@hackeryarn keep calm, ignore them, and carry on
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@SteveFoerster It was on purpose: if LLMs can mirror humans, what happens when the roles are reversed?
@stefano On the plus side, more technically proficient writing. On the minus side, a homogenized world in which all writing comes in shades of beige.
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@stefano On the plus side, more technically proficient writing. On the minus side, a homogenized world in which all writing comes in shades of beige.
@stefano But I will say that I use more em dashes than ever. I've always liked them, and I'm not going to give them up just because LLMs use them! 😄
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@stefano But I will say that I use more em dashes than ever. I've always liked them, and I'm not going to give them up just because LLMs use them! 😄
@SteveFoerster Same. Sometimes I see those sentences like "let's delve" that AI love. And I won't stop using them because of this.
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I write technical articles on my blog.
AIs show up in large numbers to read them, crawl them, learn from them.
Time passes. I publish a new post.And right on schedule, someone comments:
"This was clearly written by an AI".Which is fascinating, really.
I write.
Machines read.
I keep writing.
Then humans accuse me of being the machine.At this point I am not sure if the problem is that AI sounds too human,
or that humans have forgotten what a human who actually studies sounds like.Either way, I will keep writing.
Worst case scenario, the AIs will enjoy it.
Best case scenario, one day a human will too.@stefano
Return the favor and bounce it back: your message is written by AI.Thanks for your blog posts, 🧡 from another blogger 💪🏻
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@stefano
Return the favor and bounce it back: your message is written by AI.Thanks for your blog posts, 🧡 from another blogger 💪🏻
@mboelen nice idea!
Thank you!
Gli ultimi otto messaggi ricevuti dalla Federazione
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The economic model of social news -- that social networks generate clicks for ad-supported or paywalled Websites or apps -- is clearly not working. We should consider using more integrated models where the news is *in* the platform, not separate from it.
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@stefano @me Ouch, this is a 3B parameter model likely quantized to 2bit. Gosh, I should have figured that first. That’s the problem with local LLM, the tradeoff is the limited scope of knowledge . Well looks like this particular one was trained over BSD material, mostly, and not Italian cookbooks. Gotta check the configuration. Let’s try another open weights model instead….
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Maybe, if we actually want to have better-informed citizens, we should make a better news interface. The full story should be included in social networking posts (including images). Interactivity should be integrated with the reading experience -- not fully separate.
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@spacehobo if not, they're fired.
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Many social network users make the conclusion that it is a bad idea to try to read the whole article (paywall, not interactive, abusive ads, lose your place in the social network interface) and just respond to the headline, clickbait image, and 10 words of the lede instead. Given the UX provided, this is a very rational step.
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@Otttoz @michelelinux cos'è il test del carrello?
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Finally, comments are either closed or anonymous -- it's hard to interact with the story, the author, or other readers on the publisher's web site. So, you have to find your way back to the social networking post and give your likes, comments, or shares there. Hopefully you can just back-button away, but sometimes not.
