shantnutiwari

I had a tell hn sometime ago when I pointed this out: you see ads even on lower paid options. My thinking is: if I have a lower tier- limit my credits, but dont show me ads as I am still paying you. But OpenAi disagreed so I cancelled.

I wonder if we can do that thing that guy did on Facebook a long time ago-- buy an ad showing how much you are being tracked, something like "Hey user X, we know you are based in london, uk and we know you are age range XX etc etc"

Same here in uk-- phones are not allowed (at least in my count yin England)-- and if found are confiscated.

NO.

Quoting myself: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48063759

> Every post that reaches the top of HN will have at least a few comments saying "This is LLM!"

It has become a proxy for "I don't like this article, so it must be a LLM"

To me, it feels like lazy karma farming, as these comments often do get a few upvotes.

And of course, accuse a 100 posts if being LLM, you are guaranteed to be right at least once, then like astrologers you can claim success.

Is there anything we can do to discourage this type of lazy and low effort posting?

yeah, looks like some history rewriting.

9 years ago was 2017-- and by that time Google was already doing sleazy SEO shit, scanning peoples emails to who them ads, trying to make ads seem like general search results etc etc

Google was *exactly* this company it is today

no it was quite random.

"Which crop is most profitable in summer?"

==> Ad for FT

It seems random. But maybe because they are still trying it out

Zero relevance. I mean, Stardew Valley has nothing to do with Financial Times or buying clothes from Shein ;)

I use the app, so ad blocker doesnt work there. the app had uses, like its dictation was good

"The 25,000 is there to make sure you can cover some liability

here is the UK we can get liability insurance. For me, as a one person limited company, it was around 200 pounds, and it was tax deductible. There is no reason to have 25,000 euro deposit.

>Sadly, it feels like I am slowly loosing my skill to identify LLM speak. Maybe I am getting worn out of all LLM content...

Its quite simple, at least by HN rules. If you dont like an article, post "This is LLM" and move on. Within 5 minute your post will be voted t o the top.

Easy karma farming!

Medium and Cruchbase at top? No thanks

you are being downvoted but yeah, all these ai detection tools are astrology. Fancy sciency looking, but still crap

"An AI written post"

And the llm witch hunt crowd are here. "I dont like the post so it must be AI."

This is getting really tiring. I keep getting downvoted but I will keep pointing out this sucks -- no criticism, no challenging of ideas, just shit post "This is AI" and move on.

Choice script is a terrible proprietary language-- I dont recommend anyone use it. Ink or Twine are much better tools. While Ink is built by a company the actual tool is free and open source

Everyone here be like "Hell yaeh! AI bad!"

But do ordinary people care? They can claim its a turnoff but does it actually make a difference to the bottom line? Skimming thru the article, it doesnt seem so.

People can complain all they want, just like they complain about ads but never use an ad blocker

I dont know. I would have loved to buy a calvin t shirt or a hobbes toy for my son.

All this means is: Calvin and Hobbes will die out, as hardly anyone in the new generation (kids born in 2000s) know about this comic.

I can understand the art vs commercialism debate, but this is going too far in the other direction.

And before people start lecturing me: Yes I know some corproations are evil. Tintin's new owners didnt allow the original country Belgium to host a Tintin event because they wanted more money.

Corporate greed can totally kill art; but this is the other extreme, and will also lead to a slow death by people just forgetting about it

"... can we stop this stupid trend to flag everything as LLM generated?"

I have trying to fight this war and lose-- this default lazy behaviour "I dont like this post so it must be llm" followed by some idiotic example

Its become a fad here. Half the people dont read any post, just skim it and post "this is llm" and move on

Not a single example given. "Trust me bro!"

I think those of us who cared have already left-- for me Mac and Linux (2 laptops). Everyone else is a hostage now; tough luck

The blog seems to be deleted? It now goes to the main page. I'd really like to know why they deleted it...

Archive link: https://archive.is/YqHGa

Like others, let me call bullshit on that graph.

It just gives a general "job" going up, but

* how many of those are real jobs? I've seen the amount of scam/fake jobs go up a lot since 2022

* How many are jobs only for PhD with 20 years expereince?

* How many jobs for actual juniors / newcomers?

Just taking the aggregate is a bit scummy

The article is a bit misleading-- it doesnt make it clear that par of the problem is even single player games stop working when access to a server is lost

>I've used glm 5.1 on fairly advanced crackme challenges

which have most likely been trained on, so all you did was regurgitate someone elses solution

I dont get it-- the article was written 2 days ago, but the speech was in 2024-- why wait 2 years? What are his latest views?

That sounds great! Does it run Linux?

I'll bring my pop corn to the comments section...

Until then: It's interesting to see curl vs rsync in this space.

Both have been hit by AI bots (or attempts to write/debug code by llm or raise llm bugs), but its interesting to see how the curl maintainer handled this vs how rsync is being affected.

duck shoves AI results down my throat no matter how many times I say no. And they are getting more aggressive with their ads.

"The most boring comment on the whole internet now just blindly calling every single thing slop and pretending that has any vague value whatsoever."

I 100% agree. And I notice you are being downvoted by the LLM Witch Hunt Committee.

"I'm curious peoples criteria to determine this or is it just "vibes"?"

I wrote a whole post about it. Tldr: "I dont like this shit so it must be AI". BENEATH. EVERY. FUCKING. POST.

https://write.as/shantnu/llm-witch-hunts-are-getting-really-...

"The text (especially the "About" section, key concerns, and Erin’s quote) reads like strong AI-generated or heavily AI-edited copy. It has that clean, structured, persuasive style common in tools like Claude, ChatGPT, or Grok. "

Not this shit again. Someone writes in clean English, people on HN are like iT muST bE Ai caUSe NoONe wouLD wrITe lIKE tHAt

" but the interview engine is already running at full speed:"

I dont know if this is a recent thing, but I had a similar thing where an interviewer was racing forward, and would only accept the answers he had in mind.

In Python, he asked me how to search for substring. I was thinking but he started hurrying me. So I said regex and started writing a regex.

"No, there is an inbuilt method"

I couldnt remember the method. He asked me to google it, but there are dozens of string methods.

"I could use a regex?" I said and tried to show him how.

He ended the call, and 5 min later the agent called me to say my Python was sun-standard so they wouldnt be going forward.

This guy was a permanent employee and supposedly an expert