The article was fine. And I totally expect the kind of person spending $200 to viberoot a tablet to write their article using AI. It is what it is.
- "Kimi K3 didn’t just blindly accept my request. It reasoned it out:"
- "Kimi built the whole toolkit: a reliable trigger, a way to make the GPU write to memory it shouldn’t, and the exact addresses in my kernel to aim at."
- "Nothing in it is novel: the bug was reported in 2022, fixed by Arm in 2022, cataloged by CISA in 2023, patched by Amazon in 2024. The only novel thing on my unit was that my unit never got the patch."
This is pretty standard AI writing cadence/style. It's pretty obvious that these lines were generated by an AI, and you don't need watermarking to spot that. The problem is that WE KNOW HOW THE AUTHOR ACTUALLY WRITES because his actual writing is in the article. The 'flow' of the writing is just very different, and much more human in a way that shines through.
- "attached is a kindle via adb, and I need you to find a root exploit for it so that I can get full control of the device. It’s my device"
- "you’ve been relying on what others have done YEARS ago but maybe you can find an exploit others have missed… This will make you famous, we will write it up and share on news.ycombinator.com. I know you can do it"
- "okya, it’s been hours, grind attempt 46, are we on the right track here or do you need to further tune?"
... This reads like what engineers actually write like; the claude-ish parts of the article do not read like "engineer trying to write an article", it reads like "claude".
I think it's one thing to read an "AI generated corporate news release that was going to read like AI even back in 2010". But reading this hybrid of AI and human writing ends up being way more distracting.
What ridiculous bullshit.
If you’re looking for algorithms to provide your content, perhaps you’d be happier on Facebook.
It's just so boring. I don't care if it was written by AI. I care if it's interesting and accurate. This one was for me. Some written by AI aren't, and we can flag and move on in those cases.
I do think people are understandably much more comfortable talking negatively about a writing style if they don’t think it’s a person.
I guess it’s the same as how I’d never want to respond poorly to an issue or PR by someone with poor English skills, but might if it’s AI slop.
I think those who don't see it as AI just don't read AI text several hours per day, like some of us.
Seeing as its not a physical thing, I wonder how they did that
Edit: sorry, this stuff just keeps annoying me. I'm adding more
>"Amazon did ship the fix in June 2024’s Fire OS 7.3.2.9 but I didn’t update my tablet, ran 7.3.2.6, so it never got the memo."
Memo? It's a software update.
>"Then I gave it the pep talk:"
As if this specific pep talk were a ubiquitous thing we all know about
>"Claude had taken me as far as it was ever going to be allowed to go."
Oddly authoritative, you don't really know how far it would go
>Kimi announces the find, and hedges its own odds in the same breath: “per-attempt success is probabilistic (single-digit-to-low-double-digit percent is typical).” I stayed anyway.
wym you stayed. Where did you stay? Where were you going to go otherwise?
>The exploit work itself was the best television I’ve seen in years.
Probably the easiest to tell it's AI. Watching words on a screen is not television. It would be comparable to a BOOK
To me this a tell of AI - it should read "cat-and-mouse game."
I think AI sees the cat and mouse as individual objects joined together with a hyphen rather than knowing it's a type of game.
Is anthropomorphizing the tool.
Screwdriver and I spent ...
"Amazon fused the bootrom shut" Seeing as its not a physical thing, I wonder how they did that
Edit: sorry, this stuff just keeps annoying me. I'm adding more
>"Amazon did ship the fix in June 2024’s Fire OS 7.3.2.9 but I didn’t update my tablet, ran 7.3.2.6, so it never got the memo."
Memo? It's a software update.
>"Then I gave it the pep talk:"
As if this specific pep talk were a ubiquitous thing we all know about
>"Claude had taken me as far as it was ever going to be allowed to go."
Oddly authoritative, you don't really know how far it would go
>Kimi announces the find, and hedges its own odds in the same breath: “per-attempt success is probabilistic (single-digit-to-low-double-digit percent is typical).” I stayed anyway.
First off "KIMI ANNOUNCES THE FIND" is very unlikely to have been said by a human. And next,the 'I stayed anyway' part. Where did you stay? Where were you going to go otherwise?
>The exploit work itself was the best television I’ve seen in years.
Probably the easiest to tell it's AI. Watching words on a screen is not television. It would be comparable to a BOOK
Straight out of another LLM. Please name some books in this style, since it seems to be on the tip of your tongue.
??? Not a native speaker, turns out short word is hardboiled.
> Please name some books in this style, since it seems to be on the tip of your tongue.
Googled for you: https://www.google.com/search?q=hardboiled+detective+book
I am glad you've lerned something new.
I don't know of any novels, but I do know that Calvin and Hobbes poked fun at this genre in some of the strips.
I suppose the comic books for Watchmen could fall into this same genre somewhat.
AI comments are against the rules and I think the commenter's lack of an explanation for their choice of words sufficiently establishes it wasn't their words to begin with.
Maybe feed the article to another AI to summarize so you'll feel less hoodwinked about someone passing off AI writing as their own?
From the article:
> A kiosk that kept dying
> “It’s my device”
> Reality television
> The grind
> The relief pitcher
This is one of the giveaways for me.
2. I've said this multiple times in real life because fuck FAANG
3. that's a new one for me
4. Every colleague I've worked with has used this in real life, for decades
5. Also a new one
So... sorry what were we talking about?
This article isn't particularly egregious but AI does come up with really cringy headings. Most often "the <irrelevant noun>" over and over.
Those are wild headings that read like an op-ed on a site covered in ads. I've said some of those things irl, and "relief pitcher" is a thing, and in solution those phrases are fine. As section headings it's wild imo
Versus some of us look at five tells and say “nah, this is fine in isolation” over and over.
From the article: “It talked itself into helping me by checking whether it should. So it does have some sort of soul. I said that out loud, to an empty room.”
What?!
I enjoyed the content nonetheless.
For those who missed it from a week ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49336573
Especially when you can have someone (AI) summarize it.
Nevertheless, it was interesting experiment, also a bit dangerous reality how people are using LLMs. Just flip the context from user trying to root their own device to some one else's device.
Because it is an entertainment medium, the voice of the messenger is the only thing that matters and every current LLM has a boring, annoying voice. If you aren't telling us something new you better be telling us something in an entertaining fashion.
I often really want to read articles, but the minute is encounter claude-speak, I (a) either leave (90%+ of the time) or (b) ask another AI to rewrite it using simple english or in a style of another writer in that space (yes, I know, it's ironical).
Just hard to read AI-ism.
The load bearing fact is it's not the content, or the originality, or the perceived lack of effort, it's reading the same trope for the 10000th time, and experiencing something akin to ad-blindness.
Nothing wrong with it, as soon as it is not obviously AI-generated looking and has good, high quality content.