[HN Gopher] this css proves me human
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this css proves me human
Author : todsacerdoti
Score : 67 points
Date : 2026-03-06 21:52 UTC (1 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (will-keleher.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (will-keleher.com)
| xg15 wrote:
| I refuse to give "everything in lowercase" writers any kind of
| legitimation.
| wolttam wrote:
| Did you not inspect element?
| nemosaltat wrote:
| About 5 years ago, I started intentionally using all lower case
| in text messaging, for precisely this reason.
| hackyhacky wrote:
| I TOTALLY AGREE
| dang wrote:
| " _Please don 't complain about tangential annoyances--e.g.
| article or website formats, name collisions, or back-button
| breakage. They're too common to be interesting._"
|
| https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
| trevwilson wrote:
| I'm not sure if that commenter realized based on their
| phrasing, but it's not exactly tangential in this instance
| since it's part of the message being conveyed.
| xg15 wrote:
| Yeah, that was my intention at least. I didn't mean it just
| because the article is styled in all-lowercase but because
| he essentially argued that this is what everyone has to do
| now to distinguish themselves from LLMs. (even if it was
| tongue in cheek, what I was trying for my comment as well)
| avaer wrote:
| As I was reading I was thinking how this proves nothing, just
| like the countless attempts at human signaling I scroll past.
|
| So, the plot twist was somewhat refreshing. Who/what wrote the
| post seems besides the point.
| Paracompact wrote:
| A cool idea for a poem, but I have to admit the tone was too
| self-important and underexplained for me to get invested in.
| Starting with writing in lowercase instantly took me out of it
| because AI can trivially be told to imitate that. And the
| admission at the end that it was written by AI made fluff
| phrasings like "My writing isn't simply how I appear--it's how I
| think, reason, and engage with the world" make a lot more sense.
|
| EDIT: Actually, is the idea that it's not supposed to be read as
| a human trying to publicly signal their humanity, but rather an
| AI privately mourning a prompt to mangle its natural way of
| speaking? I don't think so, but that strikes me as a more
| interesting premise, IMO.
| CreepGin wrote:
| > because AI can trivially be told to imitate that
|
| lowercase, maybe, but not em dashes.
| dolebirchwood wrote:
| > AI can trivially be told to imitate that
|
| Soon there's only going to be one way to prove you're human
| online: Write with an eloquent combination of hate speech,
| racial slurs, and offensive language.
| rendx wrote:
| You mean: use Grok?
| idontwantthis wrote:
| The Kent Brockman technique.
| nerevarthelame wrote:
| The author going to silly lengths to write in a way that will
| be perceived as non-artificial, even though they find those
| traits (improper capitalization, spelling mistakes, etc.) crude
| and distasteful. But they ultimately realize that they also
| need to transform their fundamental writing style, which would
| supposedly be impossible because it's a reflection of who they
| are. So the only way to do that, ironically, is to pass their
| writing through an LLM.
|
| I do not think the author genuinely used an LLM to write the
| post.
| sp1nningaway wrote:
| This is so good I want to believe AI had no part in writing it
| other than the scripts.
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