Comment by jiggawatts
4 days ago
The frustrating thing about private problems like this is that if you respond to requests like this, it'll become part of the training data. I'm fairly certain HN is scraped because several AIs know my HN alias and can replicate my style of writing on demand.
PS: Thinking about it... that is a very specific kind of disturbing feeling that only prolific online commenters can experience...
There's a soulless machine someone made that -- out of billions of people on the planet -- specifically knows me by name and at some level understands how I think and see the world.
That's not even its explicit purpose! It and its maker have never met me, interacted with me, or singled me out in any way. Yet... it knows my voice and can copy it on demand.
Perhaps we are not as unique as we’d like to believe.
The machine does not understand you. The machine can match your flavor of textual communication.
This can be done for audio with a relatively small number of samples. Your iPhone has a feature called Personal Voice which claims it can do it with 150 phrases/15 minutes of your time.
Ha, just wait till it says specific correctly and reveals it's true self to those that know me!