I personally noted that I'm starting to use some LLM idioms "it's not just .. it's .." and I don't like it. I'm actually trying to stop using computers and read books to replenish my mind with more diverse idioms.
same, I also try not to read claude's output that much, and I have a copy of Gibson's Mona Lisa and just open it while it is thinknig, for music and even for CS stuff, I search with before:2022 on youtube
but the ship has sailed :)
there is no hiding from it
of course the content we consume modifies us, but now everybody "reads" the same book, whatever they read.
I write bad, but my text editor is putting little grammar and spelling squiggly lines under everything and I click through them and end up with very AI-like text. My emails even end up with emdash in them. It’s to shrug. You don’t know if text today is completely prompted or is just cleaned up by modern grammar and spell checkers?
Sure I do. You're almost good enough, at pretending to lousy construction, to have fooled me. Use more words next time; the semiliterate invariably mistake volume for quality.
> Software is quietly becoming a probabilistic system, and almost no one is saying it out loud.
AI generated or at least heavily edited would be my guess. Although, I'm with you at this point hard to tell, I'm seeing those AI filler phrases or over use words like "here is what actually happening" more and more and not only on blog posts but social media, video content, podcasts.
Where was this promise given? I am not aware of such a promise. :-(
Addendum: I am really surprises that you claim such a promise existed, since a seat in the ruling class requires a very different training and different qualifications (even completely ignoring "soft entry barriers" like habits).
IIRC with Windows 98 you could just use any product key you had on as many machines as you wanted since there was no activation or real phoning home capabilities. So most likely your whole friend group would be using the same serial that was copied off your uncle's old gateway.
All this is also a great argument for just not making browsers capable of conveying this kind of information in the first place…
Some might argue that it allows for better web apps, but the delta between how much better in can make web apps and how much poorer it can make the overall web experience is too great to be worth it, and that's before one gets into the privacy implications of browsers being so eager to share all these little nuggets of info.
This is the only correct answer. The second firefox is actually no longer viable, I guarantee you chrome is going to rapidly go closed source or require software attestation to prevent modification (not sure what the analogous plan for Safari will be, but it won’t be good).
So does DRM. In the long run, web sites will end up requiring measured boot to use passkeys, and also require passkeys. This is already common practice with android (to prevent third party ROMs from working).
I feel like the internet is programming me.
At this point it is impossible to tell if AI writes like people or people write like AI.
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