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How would Iranian propaganda even enter the British population given the sparse cultural ties, saturation of media with domestic messaging, and the British government explicitly forcing public service content onto newsfeeds[1]? My expectation would be that Iranian propaganda makes zero inroads except with migrants from the region.

1: https://foundationforfreedomonline.com/fines-bans-forced-new...


> How would Iranian propaganda even enter the British population

Haven't you heard ?They run the BBC, the Sky news, the Daily Mirror and the Sun. They also elect the parliament and the prime minister and send illegal imigrants to take the work of hard working citizens. /s


Yup. Some other ways to read the headline are "Nearly 25% are unemployed according to a measure that has never not measured that nearly 25% are unemployed" or "Nearly 25% are unemployed according to a measure that could have been at 2% or 98% until December 2025. We didn't check any farther back than that."


Please report success/failure after each test. Asking me to read and compare 30 writing samples to get any feedback at all means I won't finish. Telling me immediately when I got one wrong lets me recognize patterns and improve my guesses.


I did five, then gave up and just pressed A until I reached the end. I got 3/5 right.


Exactly the same here. 4/5.


Yea, I did two and then harrumphed in annoyance that I was expected to do all 10.


We must do something about this immediately! Immediately! Immediately!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jLO7VrRij_M


I managed 0/10 - far worse than random chance

Not sure what that says about me or the LLM but I guess I shouldn't worry too much about watermarking ruining the outputs…


> Telling me immediately when I got one wrong lets me recognize patterns and improve my guesses.

Wouldn't this make it a worse measurement?


Well, the alternative is a lot of us spammed A to get to the end, so the data quality is already horrendous.


I don't want to know whether Claude can pass the Turing test of someone who has never seen Claude's style before. I want to know whether I will start detecting the watermark everywhere and come to loathe its taint, and I want to learn how to identify it so I don't get tricked. Not interested in doing anything extra to help the website.


Yes. Did one - saw that I wouldn’t get feedback until I have completed all 10 (if at all) and noped out.


I believe this is to test the theory that people can detect watermarked text.

Teaching you how to identify watermarked text while the experiment is running would ruin the data.


Maybe detecting watermarked text is a skill to be attained. Not allowing proper feedback and training will not allow people to notice the difference on time, thus ruining the data?

Best practice is to allow a number (scaled based on complexity of task) of training rounds (with short feedback loops) prior to letting people loose on the regular samples.


That's fine. But the author's goal here is to determine if anyone can tell. So he's probably not going to ruin his experiment.


That would be a different experiment.


> I believe this is to test the theory that people can detect watermarked text.

> Teaching you how to identify watermarked text while the experiment is running would ruin the data.

But that's complete nonsense. If it's possible to teach someone how to identify watermarked text, then you've already proven that people can detect watermarked text.


Detecting watermarked text is hard. Detecting AI garbage text is easy but then classfiying the garbage further is beyond us.


I have close family and good coworkers but they aren't all beautiful, funny, omniscient, and available 24/7 with no reciprocal demands on me, so I only spend time with them to hedge my bets in case I get tired of the computer. Prison, shelter, how about flying saucer?


> 180 days in one year for work

Believe you meant "traveling for work".


Bigos is a staple food in Thea: the Awakening, where crafting cooked food gives your expeditions bonuses. Had never heard of it before that but it fits the Slavic setting.


People on TikTok are getting Acanthamoeba just from wearing their contacts in the shower. I'm glad the eye seems to be able to handle most contact use.


My LLMs frequently find subtle typos and never make subtle typos. I don't think that's equally likely at all.


Just today I had an incident review meeting resulting from a prod incident where the root cause was an LLM refactor stripping ! from the front of a boolean statement "for no reason". Not to mention how often I've seen garbled output from the LLM.

Lots of things failed for that to reach prod, but the assertion that LLMs do not make subtle typos... is not congruent with my experience.


Which LLM? When was this code written? When was the last time you saw "garbled output" and what was the context?

I'm really trying to get to the bottom of these claims, because I see them a lot and it's so wildly different from most people's experiences.


If a lot of people make the same claim, then from their perspective, you’re the one with a “wildly different” experience. What makes you so certain your experience generalizes to “most people’s experiences”?


Well, I'm either a god with prompts or...


I will try to catch you, I'll just fail due to my equal lack of coordination. Never bring a pint of Guinness to a trust fall.


What about a pitcher?


According to ChatGPT it's the skill of taking exactly one sip such that when you put the Guiness glass down the new beer level ends up precisely through the horizontal middle of the "G".

According to LadBible the actual trick was drinking a pint of Guinness while standing on his head.

https://www.ladbible.com/entertainment/netflix/netflix-execu...


I appreciate you taking the time to look it up so the rest of us don’t have to.


> According to ChatGPT

Please don't do this. Quote a source, not an LLM that bullshits.


This conversation is at a level of triviality where OP did not think it was worth looking up and no one would have clicked through to any source anyway. I didn't even believe it was worth GP's time to have to type out an answer. This way, everyone who was wondering got an accurate answer instantly. Note that I did source the claim where it actually matters if you believe the wrong thing about the person.

I feel you just need to get comfortable with the idea that an 80% confident answer is better than none, since the correction can always be searched for and posted by anyone who requires 100% confidence. I spend half of my day requesting and sifting 80% confident answers, so the idea that they have no value compared to hard sources makes no sense to me.


Please try selecting the text "splitting the G" in your browser, right click, and click "search". Immediately you will see...

> ‘splitting the G’ is the act of taking your first sip so precisely that the creamy white head of your drink drops clean through the centre of the “G” in the Guinness logo printed on the glass.

Asking ChatGPT for "trivial" questions like this is absolutely bonkers. This is a question that a search engine can answer immediately and accurately. There is no reason to gamble whatsoever.

Suggesting that we must "get used to the idea that an 80% confident answer is better than none", despite a properly sourced answer being easier to obtain instantly via a search engine, is bizarre, and only a reflection of how much brainrot these things are causing.


I don't agree at all.

First, I was able to search for this by pasting in the comment, because I also wanted to know about whether splitting the G was what he did. So I got two answers in one search.

Select and right-click is not much faster than my shortcut of copy => Opt-Z => paste. "Ask Gemini" is also there on right click but ChatGPT is my "ask any question" workflow that covers any request.

If I did Google it, I would rather take Google's AI answer than parse out either of the top two results. Neither answers without clicking through, the second offers me disambiguation I simply don't care about.

* foodrepublic.com https://www.foodrepublic.com › Drink › Beer and Wine Feb 18, 2025 — The art of splitting the "G" is well-respected in Ireland so much so that a pub owner in Galway offers a second pint free to anyone who manages to do it on ...

* Is this splitting the G? : r/Guinness Reddit · r/Guinness 7 comments · 2 years ago There are two ways to do it. First one is what you've nearly achieved, for the head of the pint to end on the horizontal line of the G (hence the name).Read more

It's simply more efficient to be 20% skeptical of an instant answer than to try to reach 100% confidence with a bunch of clicks and reading. Even when all the readers of my comment have to be skeptical as well.


I remember the “I’m feeling lucky” button


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