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Re:Slop Detective – Fight the Slop Syndicate on Wednesday November 26, 2025 @01:28PM (#46060761)
I feel like this is a good educational goal but a very poor execution.

We're meant to assume correct sentences were written by humans and AI adds glaring factual errors. I don't think it is possible at this point to tell a single human written sentence from an AI written sentence with no other context and it's dangerous to pretend it is this easy.

Several of the AI images included obvious mistakes a human wouldn't have made, but some of them also just seemed like entirely plausible digital illustrations.

Oversimplifying generative AI identification risks overconfidence that makes you even easier to fool.

Loosely related anecdote: A few months ago I showed an illustration of an extinct (bizarre looking) fish to a group of children (ages 10-13ish). They immediately started yelling that it was AI. I'm glad they are learning that images can be fake, but I actually had to explain that "Yes, I know this is not a photo. This animal is long extinct and this is what we think it looked like so a person drew it. No one is trying to fool you."

Re:You're absolutely Right! on Friday September 05, 2025 @10:13AM (#45138841)
I think it's a perfect (and subtle) way to signal that refreshing is unnecessary to see the latest data without wasting UI space explicitly explaining it. It was my favorite thing about the UI and I will be borrowing it next time I design a real-time interface where the numbers matter more than the precise timing.
Replace "Have someone try to follow your instructions" with "Have someone who hates you follow your instructions" for more accurate results.
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Re:Million Dollar Cat Billboard on Tuesday April 21, 2015 @03:41PM (#9416507)
> After all “squares” are sold, billboards will be printed and put up in the following cities: New York, Los Angeles, Toronto, London, Madrid, Paris, Berlin, Rome, Moscow, Tokyo.
Re:Are You a Robot? Introducing “No CAPTCHA ReCAPTCHA” on Wednesday December 03, 2014 @10:56AM (#8694343)
I suddenly became extremely conscious of how I was moving my mouse for the duration of that article.
Re:Time-lock encryption on Monday October 07, 2013 @11:29AM (#6508841)
This is interesting in its own right, but the Assange use case doesn't really make sense to me. Wikileaks doesn't want the encryption to be broken after a certain amount of time, they want it broken based on the condition of assassination.
Re:Wii U has been hacked on Tuesday April 30, 2013 @02:28PM (#5633987)
You should pick up Skyward Sword, ASAP!
I agree, but I think what you need to be born with is the passion that drives you to spend two hours a day from 12 to 22.
Re:A robotic dragonfly with a wingspan of 63 cm on Friday March 29, 2013 @11:56AM (#5461329)
You must have some weird looking squirrels where you live.
Re:Show HN: I built a dead simple, secure password manager. on Tuesday November 06, 2012 @02:04PM (#4749979)
If I may offer a simple UI suggestion: Make the result box read only. Combined with the minimalist UI this makes it very confusing for first time experimenters.

Also, I would suggest a submit button for clarity (and tablets).

It was the fact that they jump that bothered me. If they were just fixed in place it wouldn't have been so distracting.