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    Astrophotographer snaps skydiver falling in front of the sun

    (www.iflscience.com)
    471 points doener | 20 comments | 16 Nov 25 11:02 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source | bottom
    1. loloquwowndueo ◴[16 Nov 25 13:35 UTC] No.45945033[source]▶
    > The silhouette of Brown is neatly demarcated against the bubbling surface of the Sun. His downward trajectory is perfectly framed between sunspots, active regions on the surface of the Sun that are slightly cooler than their surrounding areas. This is not just a pretty picture; it is truly a masterpiece

    Excuse me while I go wash off the stench of AI-generated descriptions. The picture is very nice, though.

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    2. causal ◴[17 Nov 25 19:54 UTC] No.45957523[source]▶
    > This is not just a ...

    Dead giveaway

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    3. JumpCrisscross ◴[17 Nov 25 20:47 UTC] No.45958081[source]▶
    Kagi just launched an AI flagging feature. This is something HN needs.

    I don’t mind AI content. But I’m not going to read it carefully before commenting, and will double check it with real sources before changing my mind about anything.

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    4. schiffern ◴[17 Nov 25 21:25 UTC] No.45958508[source]▶
    AI-diom (n.) - an idiom which, while not exclusive to AI, is so frequent in AI output as to strongly suggest its use
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    5. dylan604 ◴[17 Nov 25 21:35 UTC] No.45958597[source]▶
    it's from iflscience which I would be shocked if there were more than 10 humans working for that site. it is so heavily loaded with ads/tracking that it gives no indication of giving a shit about its readers. i saw several parts of the site not loading due to uBO. just to see what was missing, i disabled uBO and after refreshing was presented with a blocking popup that says "our site depends heavily on" blah blah with a link to how to disable the blocker for the site. however, that's how i got to the modal was by disabling the blocker. the site was more functional with it enabled.

    again, what would one expect from a site that has that feel of doing nothing than hoping to generate a viral headline just to infect those unfortunate to have actually followed the link

    6. squigz ◴[17 Nov 25 22:04 UTC] No.45958894{3}[source]▶
    Has AI content detection become at all competent?
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    7. TylerE ◴[17 Nov 25 22:14 UTC] No.45958981{3}[source]▶
    HN can't even get it's web front end out of the 90s or meet basic accessibility standards.
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    8. BuyMyBitcoins ◴[17 Nov 25 22:28 UTC] No.45959128[source]▶
    Let’s bump up the AI even more, instead of “dead giveaway” you should have used hence.
    9. Swenrekcah ◴[17 Nov 25 22:32 UTC] No.45959167{4}[source]▶
    I think we probably need to go the other way, a comment or article needs a ‘faceId’ check before submission to get human stamp.

    Of course that brings a whole another set of problems.

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    10. squigz ◴[17 Nov 25 22:35 UTC] No.45959198{5}[source]▶
    That sort of thing is trivial to bypass and is a massive privacy violation.
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    11. codingdave ◴[17 Nov 25 22:54 UTC] No.45959365{4}[source]▶
    From what I have seen, AI can detect AI better than humans. Humans are bringing baggage into it and vilifying legit writing techniques just because AI uses them. The whole concept that AI was trained on human writing, therefore uses well-known and proven writing techniques, but that those techniques are not exclusive to AI is utterly lost on some people.

    The "dead giveaways" are not writing patterns, it is depth. AI will stay at a surface level when using argumentative writing patterns, whereas humans will add supporting information and connect the dots across sentences and paragraphs. It is the lack of connective language between thoughts and phrases that flag an AI.

    12. bethekidyouwant ◴[17 Nov 25 23:16 UTC] No.45959557{5}[source]▶
    “Encryption is easy — authentication is hard.”
    13. dylan604 ◴[17 Nov 25 23:54 UTC] No.45959844{5}[source]▶
    Fine, I'll just set up a head made by some SFX type that looks real enough for camera work.
    14. 1gn15 ◴[18 Nov 25 02:14 UTC] No.45960646[source]▶
    Who cares?
    15. bryantwolf ◴[18 Nov 25 05:47 UTC] No.45961783{3}[source]▶
    I prefer ‘clankerism’
    16. notahacker ◴[18 Nov 25 08:46 UTC] No.45962826{3}[source]▶
    Speaking of real sources, the photographer discusses how it was taken and and answers questions on Reddit https://www.reddit.com/r/spaceporn/comments/1ow9mys/the_most...
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    17. loloquwowndueo ◴[18 Nov 25 14:49 UTC] No.45966889{4}[source]▶
    *its
    18. wizzwizz4 ◴[18 Nov 25 21:54 UTC] No.45972722{6}[source]▶
    It's only a massive privacy violation for honest folk!
    19. wizzwizz4 ◴[18 Nov 25 21:55 UTC] No.45972739{4}[source]▶
    And yet, HN is one of the few sites that works (near-)perfectly in Lynx.
    20. dredmorbius ◴[19 Nov 25 01:31 UTC] No.45974793{4}[source]▶
    For us Old fans: <https://old.reddit.com/r/spaceporn/comments/1ow9mys/the_most...>