I submitted this ( I am not the author ) because I thought it was interesting take, I honestly didn't think it was AI, maybe AI polished, but not AI. Was surprised when it was flagged and I saw over on HN Removals . Ran through Claude and got this back:
"Overall, my honest read: this feels like a human-written opinion piece (possibly AI-assisted for polish/editing, which is extremely common now), not a fully AI-generated article. The specific personal history ("I've been saying this in group chats for months"), the running joke about being right before everyone else, and the reader engagement in the comments (with the author replying) all point to a real person with a strong personality behind it — though I can't rule out that Claude or another model helped tighten the prose."
It is interesting that everyone was so very certain it was AI written. Just read your comment about it being Claude based, now I am trying to figure out if Claude is trying to recuse itself in some way by giving me those results.
Still feel like the point it interesting and going to keep diving into it and I am surprised it was flagged. May have to up my reading on Removals more and more.
"A separate strand of research frames resistance to AI itself as an identity-protective response, where workers push back against the technology because it threatens how they understand who they are."
Have you gleaned anything watching o3 make decisions on a photo? ( i.e. have you noticed if it has thought of anything you.. and other higher level players similar to you... have not? )
"Although Foreman never confirmed exactly how much he has earned from the endorsement, Salton paid him $138 million in 1999 for the right to use his name. Prior to that, he was paid about 40% of the profits on each grill sold (earning him $4.5 million a month in payouts at its peak), yielding an estimated total of over $200 million just from the endorsement through 2011, substantially more than he earned as a boxer."
I am a coder and don't work in AI. I don't have a firm grasp on how far away or near we are to something like this. From a non-political perspective, I find it very interesting if true.
I felt like there was a downward trend in parties before COVID hit for me. This would be me in my late 30s. In our 20s I feel like we still went to a lot of parties and tried to at least "drop by" when we could. But then we had kids and it became a lot harder - but we still try to make the important things ( bdays, graduations, etc ). This was the micro ( and just where I was in life ) now, with COVID I feel like a) there are not as many parties - just kind of like a covid hangover on social gatherings and b) it is much easier to say "no" without social repercussions. One thing I don't like is that now children don't get invited to a lot of other children's birthday parties, where as I remember that was a huge deal growing up for me. You always knew which friend had a birthday coming up and it was a huge deal. Now I feel like most kids in our social circle are fine with just 2 or 3 close friends over to the house for a small gathering. It just seems like the era of big, social parties has dwindled locally/micro.
I really enjoyed this thread as it really is neat to see how other people perceive something I have noticed, but not really acknowledged.