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For me it was the "it's not x"/"it's y" stuff and some other structures Claude is very fond of using all the time. Perhaps humans are starting to write like LLMs!

Perhaps, just perhaps, LLMs are just statistical models that literally can't create novel things, therefore any structure LLMs write was learnt from human writing?

But who knows!


What kind of human writing has "it's not X—it's Y" in every single paragraph?

The answer is none. LLMs haven't accurately modeled human writing for years, current models have been smacked on the head with the coding RLHF bat so much, they all write distinctly inhuman text.


The thing is, people are screaming “AI” when they see a single “it's not X—it's Y" pattern in a post, despite this being a fairly common construct.

People are nitpicking every tiny thing in their search for proof of AI. It’s not useful and ends up dominating the conversation. AI panic is degrading the value of forums at least as much as actual AI at this point.


The user thing is what I currently do too. I've thought about containers but then it's confusing for everyone when I ask it to create and use containers itself.

So don't let them interact with anything external. You can push and pull to their git project folders over the local filesystem or network, they don't even need access to a remote.

Unless you are talking about running a local model, that’s not possible.

Obviously if you're running Claude Code you need a token for that and an internet connection, that's kind of a given. What I'm talking about is permission (OS level, not a leaky sandbox) to access the user's files, environment variables, project credentials for git remotes, signing keys, etc etc.

Any sign of AI, TBH. I don't come to HN to ask Claude, I already pay Anthropic for that.

I'll be sticking with Lightroom 6 (non-subscription) and the old cameras it supports, until the sad but inevitable day I can no longer run it.

I don't find editing takes much time, because I now have so many custom presets I can apply on import or in bulk that do 90% of the work.

What does take ages is picking out the best shots, but really the only way to make that quicker is to take fewer photos. Which I suppose shooting film actually does force you to do. (But so would a 2GB SD card.)


This is great, I discovered it a year or two ago - nice work! Excited to hear there might be more development happening.

I don't understand how they found nothing in the raid, wouldn't they normally bring drugs with them to plant? If they forgot those that's a whole new level of police incompetence.


> wouldn't they normally bring drugs with them to plant?

Why do you think they were so annoyed at all the cameras?


I guess they assumed that a musician whose whole persona is built around weed would supply the evidence.


You say that, but I’ve been watching a lot of those body cam channels over the past few years.

I remember one quite well, in which the police were raiding some suburban Texas home and decided to steal the guns and cocaine they found in it.

The kicker: They forgot to turn off their body cams while doing and discussing it.


> Common enough to be a minor plot point in a current cop show...

You've reversed cause and effect. Cop shows don't base their plots on what is real, they base them on what people will believe is plausible.


Anecdotally I know approximately zero 'normal' (non-tech) people who are intentionally using generative AI, several who have been badly misled by Google's AI summaries, and quite a few who are vehemently anti-AI (usually artists and writers).

(Except when mandated by their employers, which nobody is happy about or finds particularly useful.)


Every single person I know outside of my profession is using it, including all relatives of all ages. Even if it's at the top of the google search results :)


Well, and that service then inevitably being hacked and your ID being distributed and/or sold to miscreants online.

I'm in the UK, I'm normally connected through a VPN these days.


I bet not many of us would be here now if we hadn't had our own computers before age 16.


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