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alright folks, let's get real. we all have our sprawling digital fortresses, carefully constructed brick by brick. but there's always that one piece of software, that one perfectly tuned instance, where if it so much as hiccuped, you'd be ready to throw the entire homelab out the window and start fresh in a cave. what is it for you? what's your absolute, non-negotiable, 'i will personally visit the datacenter if this fails' self-hosted application? for me, it's my media server stack. my wife would disown me. don't let me down, arr suite.

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[–] BussyGyatt@feddit.org 22 points 6 days ago (3 children)
[–] jol@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[–] MoonlitSanguine@lemmy.zip 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

It's hard to say exactly, it's like noticing when something is CGI in a movie. It's just kind of off.

The first few sentences gives it away for me. There's also the filler words.

Also the way it rephrases the sentences. You have:

there's always that one piece of software, that one perfectly tuned instance, where if it so much as hiccuped, you'd be ready to throw the entire homelab

Then again:

what's your absolute, non-negotiable, 'i will personally visit the datacenter if this fails' self-hosted application

It's also possible they just write like a bot.

I'll add that it's a multiple of parts (see this video), not just one factor that gives it away. But for me the most telling one is that the text looks like the author spent a lot of time thinking about what figures of speech to use but at the same time did not use capital letters. The prompt clearly included something like "don't use capital letters to make it look more casual". But the LLM forgot to make the semantics look casual.

It’s also possible they just write like a bot.

Unlikely but if it were true, it would not change a thing. For me it does not matter who wrote the slop. It's crap writing regardless and I don't want to see that on the internet.

Btw from the video we can see the "rule of 3 pattern" which was used in this post:

what’s your absolute, non-negotiable, ‘i will personally visit the datacenter if this fails’ self-hosted application

Also I think the greeting "alright folks, let’s get real" is a gipitism.

what’s your absolute, non-negotiable, ‘i will personally visit the datacenter if this fails’ self-hosted application

Here you missed that this sentence makes no sense in a selfhosted context. What datacenter??? I honestly don't know how can anyone doubt the elelemcy here.

[–] themachine@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago

Thanks for the warning. To the blocklist it goes.

[–] papertowels@mander.xyz 1 points 4 days ago

Seconding the request for details - how do you know?