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Ask HN: Why do AIs include obvious, easily removed tells that can get you fired?

2•amichail•2h ago
For example, using matching curved quotation marks (“ and ”, ‘ and ’) is a clear AI tell.

If the user forgets to convert them to straight quotes, they could get fired.

So why do AIs use them?

Comments

glitchcrab•2h ago
Do you really think that the LLM knows or cares whether you get fired? Your mistake here is treating LLMs are sentient when all they really are is a token probability predictor.
amichail•2h ago
I'm sure the genius employees at these companies can do a search and replace (possibly client-side) to fix the quotation mark issue.

Of course, some things, such as having too many em dashes, would require more work to fix.

Phlebsy•2h ago
Why do users insist on using tools that can get them fired? This is either a policy or culture problem, not an AI problem.

Hell, just make a macro to replace all the funny anachronisms and a prompt that can reference your own writing style to massage the output.

scarface_74•1h ago
“This isn’t written by Ai”

‘And neither is this’

My iPhone and my computer do it automatically.

rkomorn•1h ago
And the behavior may even change depending on which language you've selected when you're typing!
Lariscus•1h ago
How about not using a LLM if you could get fired for doing so...
al_borland•1h ago
Quotes like that were an issue long before AI. Classically, it was a sign that something was copied from Word or Outlook. I used to run into it constantly 15 years ago, I had a co-worker run into it a couple weeks ago, no AI involved.

As much as I’ve seen this, I’ve never seen anyone get fired for it, this includes times where it broke production.

bdangubic•43m ago
There are many more places these days where not using AI gets you fired… :)
zzo38computer•37m ago
I think some programs on some computers will automatically use curved quotations marks (even if they can be disabled, it is not always done), and sometimes they are deliberately entered manually, so that is not necessarily the AI.

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