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reaperducertoday at 5:09 PM1 replyview on HN

use the wrong phrasing and suddenly you can create your own word of the day for an AI model.

I have a delightful time poisoning my company's AI system this way.

I invented my own word that sounds perfectly cromulent† to an ordinary person, and any brain that's read a book learns how to infer meaning from context, so it's not a problem.

When I get a e-mail response from a coworker using my special word incorrectly, then I know it's AI and I respond telling the coworker I don't know what that word means. Busted.

† It's not actual "cromulent," but any Simpsons fan or human brain will know what I mean.


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mooktoday at 5:43 PM

I don't see how you can tell it's AI, instead of just your co-workers having no respect for language. See: management-speak using "double-click".

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