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Mainly because the person he was having the affair with was a customer of the company and because they are reported to have possibly been a spy for the Chinese government. All of these things have a direct impact on the confidence of employees.

Wait till they find out about zstd...

I don't know how to describe but this example to me is fundamentally completely different and I don't think it is bad writing (though obviously I have no context outside the style). The dialogue especially helps.

I agree that short staccato phrasing is not inherently bad. I think it's just how it is used, and that when AI chooses to write in that style it is often "bad" in some sort of way I have trouble defining precisely.

I think the theory posed above (that the original story is in Russian) makes a lot of sense.

Oh! I mean that could be a good explanation. Written in another language and then translated over via LLM.

I agree that pangram is not infallible. It has a reported FP rate of like 1/10,000, which is decidedly not zero! Having used AI to write fiction before, and working with LLMs all day, I do feel pretty confident in my ability to detect them. Pangram is just a way to make sure I am not totally ungrounded. Moreover, I don't actually particularly care if someone uses an LLM in the process of writing their work. What I care about is how it sounds. This story reads like an LLM wrote it, optimizing towards what a novice writer would find appealing.

Is the joke that it took me like 3 minutes to write this? If so, I think that's a bit unfair to the author. I think this is something that was at least shaped. But I feel very confident its LLM written. If it isn't LLM written, then I also think it is bad writing, but that's a separate point.

Scored 100% on a Pangram of the first few paragraphs.

Things that alerted me. (Note that any one of these things could be fine and explainable, but so many in short order makes it obvious).

> And it rang. We both did our jobs.

What is the human's job here? Waking up?

> the whole morning minute by minute, as if someone had laid it out on a table and labeled every piece.

Labored metaphor that doesn't add anything. Laid out a minute? On a table? Even if we accept the non physical metaphor for style, how does that add anything on top of "minute by minute".

> I made two pieces of toast. The left one burned. The left one in my toaster always burns; my toaster has a favorite side.

This sort of short staccato phrasing is an LLM smell. It's hard to describe why precisely and how it varies from natural human text, but LLMs like to do this when writing fiction, especially when told to "write with a good style, don't write like an LLM."

I think the more logical concern would be that it would wait until it could find any potential unsecured wifi to use. I live in an apartment building and there a few wifi access points that I can reach from my apartment with no security. Though one of them appears to be an air conditioner??

> Radiaverse turns those tracks into one shared map, with the places worth knowing about described by the people who found them.

This Claude sentence would be greatly improved by deleting everything after the comma. That clause adds nothing informationally and in some sense is using a very weird definition of describe and found.

Thanks. Looks like it does line up with the original findings, however I do feel pretty confident that this could be ameliorated using slightly more complex watermarking strategies. (I do think that overall watermarking is not an effective governance solution for text)

> Natzir Turrado, a technical consultant, actually tested this (article in Spanish) by reproducing SynthID-Text on an open model with the paper's settings and a watermark key. He asked the watermarked model five times to describe a memorable trip to a coastal town. Four of the five answers he got back opened in a near-identical way: “My heart still sings/dances when I think back to my trip to the quaint coastal town of…”. For the unwatermarked model, three opened in different ways.

A test of 2/5 vs 4/5 seems to be an obviously invalid experiment.

"How we did it" (Claude and him).

Some bad writing examples I liked.

> By the third pause to look up a word, your tea has gone cold.

And here I thought that water had one of the highest specific heat capacities.

> Both numbers are true

What does "both numbers" refer to? Presumably the two percentages, (based on the title, but there is no framing right away that these are the key numbers), and proximate to the line are several unrounded numbers.

> is a flashcard app that teaches Japanese from anime. Each card uses a line where you know everything except the one new word, which is why we started counting lines. The figures above count each word once, however many meanings it has. That wouldn't work in the app: knowing あれ as "that" doesn't help when someone says あれ？ (huh?). These are two separate cards. It doesn't catch every such word yet, we're working on it. During early access it offers one show, Hunter x Hunter.

Highly advise cutting down your marketing pitch for your product, it's just too long to grab people.

I am not making a statement about the quality of life of poor people in the modern world. I do not think however that from a food security standpoint they are more precarious. I am fairly confident that the longer hours thing is false. Unless we are assuming like 70+ hours of work a week.

https://acoup.blog/2025/08/22/collections-life-work-death-an... You can read https://acoup.blog/2025/09/05/collections-life-work-death-an... which is by a working historian.

I also want to add that, none of this is relevant to the point of whether or not the current system is "just" or reasonable given and I think overall that argument is mostly a red herring.

Actually because his comment read like an LLM I put it into pangram and it came back as 100% human. Take what you will from this.

Megaslop. I stopped reading at "Your thinking stops disappearing. Your decisions start compounding."

Like what even is this, we know about ADRs, this is a common framework.

> For me, around 200,000 or 300,000 is where I start looking. I’ll check, see it’s at 250,000, and think: I’ve got a big job coming up. I’m going to reset and start fresh

I don't find this to be true, at least with the newer models. I also find that the models fill up to 250k very quickly (presumably mostly by looking through the codebase). Without that context I find the models perform badly. I also don't really notice that large of a change until around 700-800k context and even then it isn't as bad as it used to be. I suspect, that (especially for coding), the long horizon RLVR tasks have helped with this quite a bit.

A combination of words that are infrequently observed in natural language. For example in the preceding sentence some of the 3-grams are "combination of words", "infrequently observed in", and "words that are". N-grams are just this for all values of n. They are saying that often times the exact sequence of a short fragment of text is not very common in human written text.

This was excellent, and one would hope they can at least try to optimize these metrics a bit.

Obviously AI written text. At least there is real content here, however I do find the order and the way in which it was written and portrayed to have a heavy AI smell. That is, it's hard to read and follow the clean narrative, it isn't written the way a human who was trying to convince another human would write, and is less effective because of it.

I don't think this told me anything, and it reads like basically something I could have asked claude to whip up for me.

I hate this website's AI slop design man. Just to pick out some pieces. Why the random circles, why do I care how many people are "here". Why is the text of the number of incidents so small. Why is everything so busy, why is there so much text full of things I don't need to read. Why are they all presented at the same loudness.

I like the idea, but it's a little too obviously AI written for my taste.

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This to me reads like an absolutely bog standard statement that would be made at any university PR piece about any novel nucleic acid system like this one. The paper itself will usually be more restrained but still attempt to gain some status via comparison.

It also is clearly novel in the scientific sense. This is not a known system and it may resemble some attributes of similar systems but it differs substantially in its arrangement, since it's not clearly a retron.

As for if it is for PR. Yes, I don't disagree about that.

I'm not going to say that it is absolutely Earth shattering (not that they claim that), but your comment is obviously wrong. In the paper they show experimental results where they express some of the proteins and show a phenotypic effect. They don't claim an exact function either, and are relatively restrained on the biology end of things. I fail to see how it is at the level of a vague shower thought.

Insane slop title.

Yes. See for example any number of nerve agents such as VX. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VX_(nerve_agent). Yes, you can quibble over whether they count as "phosphates" given they often have fluoryl or other substituents, but the class is generally referred to as organophosphates, and they certainly have phosphorous in them. Malathion, is also an organophosphate which acts via the same pathway, but only in insects.

Claude slop.