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New comment by biztos in "Your intellectual fly is open when you use an LLM to author a post (2025)"

biztos — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 04:13:44 +0000

How do you think they will verify this?

With AI?

New comment by biztos in "New York Times and The Athletic workers demand company scrap Kalshi deal"

biztos — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 17:43:42 +0000

Out of curiosity, why should sports betting via a bookie be legal in the US? Currently it is not.

New comment by biztos in "Grok outage"

biztos — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 17:30:55 +0000

Yes but that doesn't mean it's not the singularity!

New comment by biztos in "Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1"

biztos — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 17:07:15 +0000

If I get a response from the OpenAI API (or whatever), the fact that the text is embedded in a JSON object that is obviously an AI response, and even tells me which model was used and how many tokens it took, then I already have a machine-readable format clearly identifying the text as AI-generated. Whether the recipient chooses to keep that when they use the text is not my problem, right?

As the API provider, I would be very happy to consider myself compliant based on this. But I have a feeling it wouldn't fly in Brussels.

New comment by biztos in "Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1"

biztos — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 17:05:39 +0000

So if an AI-generated thing is cut in half, and only one half can be identified as being AI-generated while the other half can not, do we think that will be OK?

New comment by biztos in "Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1"

biztos — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 09:14:31 +0000

Leaving aside the fact that this is already the new Ubiquitous Cookie Consent[0], how do you arrive at metadata on text output satisfying this requirement?

[0]: I was just in the EU and got a chuckle out of the "AI disclaimer" coming at the end of every second advertisement, soon to be every advertisement.

New comment by biztos in "Don't paste the AI, please"

biztos — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 10:01:10 +0000

Both: English messages sent to me, and I also see my friends do it in Spanish for messages sent to other people.

New comment by biztos in "Don't paste the AI, please"

biztos — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 14:17:29 +0000

I was surprised WhatsApp didn't give me a "transcribe" button (as recently as yesterday). Seems like it'd be pretty easy to implement that.

New comment by biztos in "Don't paste the AI, please"

biztos — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 12:16:20 +0000

The WhatsApp voice message is very common in Spain. I always find it jarring when I'm there, mostly because I'm not used to it, but also because it seems to defeat the purpose of the messaging app: I can't listen to your voice message on the bus, for instance.

It's so normalized there that I wonder whether this is a particularly Spanish habit. Maybe there are a bunch of countries where people routinely leave each other voice recordings on WhatsApp/Messenger/etc, and I just haven't been to them yet.

New comment by biztos in "DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813"

biztos — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 15:01:13 +0000

Basket? Fish? All I see is the model recursively running itself locally on an eye-pad, which for some reason beyond our understanding is obscuring the invisible fork.

New comment by biztos in "Don't be a meat proxy"

biztos — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 08:17:46 +0000

FWIW I did a day of German-language software design with Claude and it was great, a bit strenuous of course but I also wonder if it might have found some bugs it would have overlooked in English.

If you're doing it for writing practice, one of the good/bad things is that it's quite typo-tolerant (in any language). So you can have the chat with less effort, at the risk of practicing bad habits.

New comment by biztos in "AI fuels more than half of cybercrime in Africa as scams surge – Interpol"

biztos — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 06:58:38 +0000

I read it as asserting that unlike in Asia, people do this work willingly. Which I don't actually believe: if you couldn't find qualified people for this work in Cambodia, how are you going to find them in Africa?

New comment by biztos in "Don't be a meat proxy"

biztos — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 16:34:57 +0000

That's a great idea.

I've been thinking about how to avoid having AI-isms creep into my own voice, because I see that way too much in my tech-world friends. It's natural enough: if you spend a lot of time talking to somebody, you usually end up mirroring some of their speech patterns.

One idea I had was to start doing my Claude sessions in German. (That happens to be my strongest second language, no other reason.) Thus any Claude-isms I pick up will presumably not wander into my English, which is what I use for most communications.

This would have the added benefits of getting some much-needed German typing practice, and preventing me from ever lazily copy-pasting AI text into an email or a README.

New comment by biztos in "Read this before you buy that TV streaming stick"

biztos — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 02:30:00 +0000

While it could of course be produced in Xinjiang without using "slave labor," the US government banned those tomatoes in 2021 because of that risk:

https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/national-media-release/cbp-issu...

If Costco were circumventing the ban it'd be a pretty big deal. I couldn't google up any indications that they are, so on balance I'd say it's "possible" in the same way my winning the lottery is possible. Can't rule it out, but reasonable people should probably bet against it.

TIL: Xinjiang tomatoes are something like 15% of the global market!

New comment by biztos in "Substack writers, you need a website"

biztos — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 05:33:04 +0000

"Publish Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere"

https://indieweb.org/POSSE

(There were a dozen other, unrelated things ranking higher on Google.)

New comment by biztos in "Kimi-K3 on HuggingFace"

biztos — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 04:06:42 +0000

If you put a layer between the customer and the LLM, a la ChatGPT/Claude, are you a Model-as-a-Service business? I think you are not.

But then how thick does that layer need to be?

I think the real win from these models is enabling well-funded/profitable companies to not be beholden to the big closed-weight providers. But I like the idea of letting a hundred flowers bloom for under $20M/y each.

New comment by biztos in "A 77-year-old Republican man is staging a solo protest against Flock cameras"

biztos — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 22:22:52 +0000

That's a fun idea! I wonder if it'd work if you just used something like an e-Ink screen and had it generate random license plates?

I suppose "blocking the view of surveillance cameras" is probably illegal though.

New comment by biztos in "OpenAI and Hugging Face address security incident during model evaluation"

biztos — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 11:16:03 +0000

Haven’t read it yet but here it is:

https://stratechery.com/2026/whos-afraid-of-chinese-models/

New comment by biztos in "OpenAI and Hugging Face address security incident during model evaluation"

biztos — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 11:14:24 +0000

In this new age of AI, all the devs are Daves.

New comment by biztos in "Ask HN: What are your favorite blogs not about AI?"

biztos — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 01:24:26 +0000

That's a great blog/website! I always forget where it is because of the weird domain, but now I'm adding it to my RSS aggregator.