It's interesting how easy it is to spot LLM-written text after you familiarize yourself with its general writing style (at least for the GPT-based models).
I think it's just the bland "thought leader" LinkedIn-style post - I don't think it's LLM-specific, but rather lowest common denominator writing that's very easy to write and reproduce and therefore easy to mimic with your favourite LLM.
EDIT: Although with just how generic the advice here is, and the ChatGPT images, this feels like a particularly egregious example of just dumping out LLM-generated content.
The brown comic image is a dead giveway too, does anyone know why so many of these have this weird pastel / brown color? I mean it fits with the theme of the page so it might just be confirmation bias or chance (that is, I don't notice the AI generated comics that aren't brown).
Alternative: the author actually wrote the words (because that's their opinion, and they want to share it to the world) and generated the comic with AI (as it's just a way to illustrate, and they're less proficient with drawing than with writing.)
I dabbled in writing, I would have hated for random people to assume my posts where AI generated, especially given that such a claim is practically unfalsifiable at this point.
One theory is it is the feedback from all the Ghibli stuff that went on a few months back. These tones first started appearing there for skin tone or even sky, then started appearing everywhere.
The cadence and sentence structure is very obvious; GPT-based LLMs somehow just tend to be very haughty by default. There's the very slogan-esque 'X? Verb-in-past-tense. Y? Another-verb-in-past-tense' sort of sentences that're a dead give-away that something is written by an LLM. Also weird similes and constructions that make grammatical and even contextual sense, but don't really exist in English.
I'm intrigued, as this article did not trigger my (clearly as yet underdeveloped) GenAI spidey sense. Will you share some specifics of what triggered yours?
Separately, do you have any thoughts on the subject matter? Whoever or whatever put these words in a row, they resonate deeply with my lived experience of the last several years.
Plausibly correct...but humans were writing drivel to various subject and style spec's back when the CEO's official title was "Pharaoh". And any 2000's-era web designer learned that the client's actual content was often a downgrade from Lorem ipsum.
So "LLM-written" works as an insult, but it doesn't seem useful as a category for written works.
Imagine the literary possibilities when it can write 100%! Rowling's original work was an amusing, if rather derivative children's book. But Llama's version of the Philosophers stone will be something else entirely. Just think of the rather heavy-handed Cerberus reference in the original work. Instead of a rote reference to Greek mythology used as a simple trope, it will be filled with a subtext that only an LLM can produce.
Right now they're working on recreating the famous sequence with the troll in the dungeon. It might cost them another few billion in training, but the end results will speak for themselves.
Azerbaijan is an ally of Turkey, whereas Armenia has historically been more aligned with Russia. As a result, the west (NATO) is fairly lenient with Azerbaijan when it comes to conflicts between the two countries, or is at least hesitant to intervene.
I'm in a similar situation to you. In my experience there are a lot of people these days who get the sense that they're falling behind despite feeling like they've done everything right. Tech in particular has been seen as "the right choice" for a while now, and it can be hard to come to terms with the arbitrary injustice of a market downswing, especially when it most severely affects new graduates. You follow the advice people give you, see the job offers and salaries your older peers are getting, and when it's your turn things are suddenly completely different. It's cruel!
I don't have any advice when it comes to realizing your dreams of a high-paying, high-status job, but I've dealt with a similar cynicism and volunteer work has been a great help. It's very, very easy to get caught up in the narrative of your own life, especially when you're surrounded by peers and family that subscribe to a similar narrative. Making a change in the lives of people who are struggling is a great way to feel good about yourself, and the perspective you'll get from talking to and understanding people in different circumstances to your own is very grounding and humanizing.
Norway and Denmark have national card schemes (BankAxept and Dankort) which are used for virtually all PoS transactions. They cost a fraction of the transaction costs that Visa and Mastercard charge. These arose by banks agreeing to a standardized solution.
Was there ever any attempt to do something similar in the US?
My understanding is that increasing the interest rate causes capital to be more likely to seek low-risk guaranteed returns. The effect of this is to disincentivize investments and economic activity in general, as capital is more likely to be "parked" in risk-free debt, rather than seeking other ways of reaching high yield.
The unintuitive aspect of it is how inflation could reach 2% when capital has a guaranteed, risk-free way of generating 5%+ yield. But I suppose that could be explained by examining the growing economic inequality of the past 30+ years.
But the "high yield" investments are a zero-sum game. They don't create new money. If you invest in a company and the company is successful, your return is not printed. It comes from the pockets of the companies customers.
The risk-free returns on government bonds are risk free because the government never goes bankrupt. Because it simply prints the money it needs.
When you start a company and a vc gives you a million dollars at a $10 million valuation, 1 million is real, the other 9 just got printed.
When you do labor, you print money. When you take out a loan and commit your future labor to paying interest, you are printing money (converting labor to money)
There is always two sides to money.
The fed pays government workers, the other side is the worker’s labor. Fed buys bonds, the other side is the bond. Fed sells a bond, it destroys the money it receives back. fed buys gold, the other side is the gold. the other side is as much responsible for the money creation as the fed. Fed doesn’t unilaterally create money.
