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[–] [email protected] 28 points 7 months ago (3 children)

In this blog post we explain why competent service operators can avoid having to share sensitive information about you without facing severe legal consequences. The reasons laid out will also highlight why you are better off choosing a VPN service run by privacy activists who will prioritise principles before profits in difficult situations

is it me or does it read like someone used an LLM to write those sentences?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Sounds like the intro paragraph to someone's term paper at uni.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Yeah, that's what I was going to say. Thank god that shit didn't exist when I was in college, or every paper I ever wrote would have been flagged. I guess I write like a robot.

[–] PM_Your_Nudes_Please 3 points 7 months ago

Worth noting that there is a strong correlation between neurodivergence and falsely getting flagged for using AI. Apparently AI sounds autistic, so lots of autistic kids were getting flagged for AI use even when they wrote it themselves.

But if it helps, even ChatGPT has had to admit that AI detection is inaccurate and schools shouldn’t be relying on them.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

the twist is that the LLM writes like this because you trained it to do so with your term papers that it scraped

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Haha same! There's a place for us though: if you ever get into research, robotic writing tends to work out fairly well!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Thing is, I don't even feel like I do write like a robot per-se... Maybe it's more like I write like the average of every person who has ever written anything ever lol.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

This is usually how I intro documentation for tech projects. Its good practice for technical docs, doesn't necessarily mean its an LLM

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

GPT loves alliteration, so at least there’s something to support your suspicion.

[–] FutileRecipe 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

So, scrub my papers for alliteration. Thanks for the tip.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Use it sparingly and with style. More isn’t always better.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Ha! Author here - no LLM was used. It was an attempt to summarise the content and the key message, but it took some time to jam pack everything into two sentences.