I spent $266 and four AI models to own my tablet. GLM-5.3 finished it in a day
ericpardee.github.io537 points by dr_pardee 6 hours ago
537 points by dr_pardee 6 hours ago
Nice to see the capabilities of the model but the article has heavy AI tones, making it boring to read.
an AI:DR; is enough: the models found unpatched vulnerabilities and managed to create an exploit to root the tablet, chinese models did it while American ones fell back to their safeguards.
At this point it’s more exhausting to discuss whether an article was written using AI than it is to accidentally read an article written by AI.
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.
Definitely AI written, and it has an annoying bubbly vibe, but the content was interesting nevertheless.
I think those who don't see it as AI just don't read AI text several hours per day, like some of us.
> Claude Code and I spent months on the cat-and-mouse.
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.
It's also the wrong idiom. A cat and mouse game generally implies that the mouse spends time running away and actively evading the mouse. Owning a tablet that isn't receiving updates to a avoid the "cat" isn't that.
^Claude Code and I spent ...
Is anthropomorphizing the tool.
Screwdriver and I spent ...
can you point us towards the specific tells you're seeing in the article. I find the writing maybe LLM-cheerfull yes, but don't see classic phrase patterns.
I have seen phrases with "earns its keep" a lot when comparing different algorithms and tradeoffs. "GLM-5.2 cost $21.90, worked overnight as instructed, and earned its keep twice."
I would not call it bubbly; more like 1960s-noir-pulp-fiction-rugged-detective style. Anyway, could be fixed, to some extent with proper prompting.
> 1960s-noir-pulp-fiction-rugged-detective style
Straight out of another LLM. Please name some books in this style, since it seems to be on the tip of your tongue.
> Straight out of another LLM
??? 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
Could you expand on how it's pulp-fictitious? Or noir? Or "rugged" detective? Why the "rugged"? I've never heard of the word "hardboiled" referring to anything but eggs.
> I've never heard of the word "hardboiled" referring to anything but eggs.
I am glad you've lerned something new.
A human would not have applied any of these terms to the submission, let alone their amalgamation.
"Hardboiled" is a common term used for a certain genre of detective novel.
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.
This is tangential to the commenter's inability to explain their choice of words which is atypical of a human who would have went with "dense", and suggests a 3T parameter model reaching for "1960s-noir-pulp-fiction-rugged-detective".
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.