There's a really charming YouTube creator in the same vein, MUDA-ZUKURI. I had the honor of being smacked with a stack of cash by her "motivation machine".
Before the next galaxy brain shows us all how smart and witty they are by adding the nth sarcastic comment about how obvious this result is, I hope they'll take a moment to consider a few things.
Yes, people are using LLMs for this kid of thing. Lots of people. All the time. I've met plenty of them and there loads of apps that offer this kind of "service". The authors are well aware that people are doing this and probably anticipated the result.
Why do the study at all? Because it's important to demonstrate and measure things, even obvious ones. Because it's not obvious to everyone, like the people who are already consulting LLMs for dietary information to manage their health. Because it's easier to enact official policies when there's hard evidence.
Google Maps stopped being a reliable way to find good restaurants a long time ago. Any time in my city when I see a place with a high rating and suspiciously large number of reviews, searching for "five stars" in the reviews inevitably finds customers helpfully mentioning that they got free food in exchange. I've even seen places advertise the bribe openly on Maps. It would be trivial to detect this and punish offenders, but Google chooses not to.
I've been mulling over starting a boutique social network focused on location reviews with real life friends exclusively.
I think Netflix realized that reducing ratings to a simple thumbs up/down was a bad idea after all. A while back they introduced the ability to give double thumbs up which, if you can treat non-rating as a kind of rating, means they're using a four point scale: thumbs down, no rating, thumbs up, double thumbs up.
Most of the Final Fantasy games have been like that, which is why I've (most of the time) been a fan since since FF4/2. I can't remember how many times I've been turned off by a game when it starts with the protagonist being woken up by his mom, followed by endless wandering around town.
That's exactly the kind of study routine that's proven to lead to mastery of the material (understanding, not just memorizing). Starting from there and with a few tweaks you've got yourself a Zettelkasten.
In the back of mind I knew it wasn't so, but I had been holding onto the belief that surely I could discern between human and bot, and that bots weren't a real issue where I spent my time anyway. But no. We're at a point where any anonymous public comment is possibly an impersonation. And eventually that "possibly" will have to replaced with "most likely".
I don't know what the solution is or if there even is one.
He says in the video that YouTube is the only exception to the exclusivity clause, meaning the couldn't also publish to Float Plane or other similar platforms.
I use their products daily both professionally and personally, mostly Designer and Publisher. Coming from someone who also used to use Adobe products, the affinity suite meets my needs almost perfectly. There are some times when I sorely miss a feature, like bitmap tracing and proper vector brushes in Designer and variable spread sizes in Publisher. That said, if you're going to pay for software, they're 100% worth the price.
I think this is good use for microblogging platforms like Mastodon and the others, to which you can link to from within your blog. If you've written a lot of mini-posts[1] that fit a theme you can edit them together into larger blog post eventually. If you have complete control over your website you could even feature some of your most recent or popular mini-posts on your front page.
[1] I don't know what the best term is to describe theses kinds of posts that distinguishes them from long form blog posts. What do people do on Mastodon--toot? I'm just going with mini-post for now.
I've been trying every state of the art OCR solution on my students' handwritten essays for fifteen years and have yet to find anything even close to acceptable.
https://youtube.com/@mudadukuri