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The Harvard Library Passport

https://fi-le.net/stamps/
27•fi-le•2d ago

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fumeux_fume•1h ago
> For those looking for a more discreet way to spend quality time, my sources tell me the single-occupancy office rooms on the top floor are sometimes left unlocked.

This was an interesting little rundown on all the different libraries at Harvard made all the more enjoyable by the author's humor and wit.

ghc•49m ago
The writing style seems a little unnatural, but the odd grammatical error convinced me that it wasn't the result of someone asking an LLM to review the libraries and write the reviews in the voice of an intellectual who went to Harvard.

What a world we live in, that suspecting an LLM guided by a specific prompt would be my first instinct.

throwanem•33m ago
"We?" I had no such trouble. You should spend less time with LLMs, if you can.
rawgabbit•17m ago
The author says he is a visiting researcher from ETH Switzerland. That is he is not a native English speaker.
fumeux_fume•16m ago
Ok Deckard
hagbard_c•7m ago
> ...the odd grammatical error convinced me that it wasn't the result of someone asking an LLM...

That's easily solved by models intentionally introducing the odd grammatical error here and there, just enough to convince the sceptics, not so many as to give the impression of being unlettered. A bit like the mythical 'RHS button' (which stands for 'real human shitty' but in reality is called the 'Shuffle' or 'Swing' function) which is supposed to make mechanically-precise drum machines sound more like human drummers.

bcraven•2m ago
The trope of HN comments determining whether an article was written by AI is becoming extremely tiresome.

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The Harvard Library Passport

https://fi-le.net/stamps/
27•fi-le•2d ago•7 comments

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