just got insulted by a particularly offensive dark pattern: I went to the first online character counter I could find to check the length of something I'd written in a web form, and aside from the character count, it popped up this brazen lie that my completely handwritten post was "obviously" AI-generated. But don't worry, they can automatically "remove AI" and make it "100% human"! By which they mean charge me for an LLM to continuously rewrite it in stranger and stranger ways until it scrapes a "0% LLM" detection score
@0xabad1dea if you're on MacOS you can use WordService by DEVON for local-only character/word/line counting: https://www.devontechnologies.com/blog/20230905-use-wordservice
It's frustrating that if you follow the rules of grammar and punctuation, you're accused of being AI.
Maybe to prove we're human, we should insert an image of a stop signal or fire hydrant. That seems to be good enough when logging into sites.
@0xabad1dea
That icon in the "Yes, Remove AI" button sure looks like a middle finger gesture to me. Made me laugh.
@0xabad1dea i wish mastodon was counting characters for us. I mean character limit is cool and all, but it could also show the char count
@thefeditest mine does. is that really a +glitch-only feature??
@0xabad1dea mine does too but it counts down from 500, but would be cool to toggle the number into showing how many characters left vs how many were already written
@thefeditest oh, I see what you mean. I wasn't thinking of them as different since I was thinking in terms of just needing to know "am I over the limit or not?"
(in this case, I was posting on a non-mastodon site, which has a character limit and refuses the post when you're over it, but doesn't give any indicators of any kind in the post editor)
@0xabad1dea @cford as someone said, “the key is sincerity: once you can fake that, you’ve got it made”
@0xabad1dea An #AI asked you if it could rewrite your text so that it isn't #AI written anymore?
@[email protected] "Give me money for my AI removal AI" is right up there on the offensively brazen stakes I have to admit.
@0xabad1dea assuming that everyone who needs an online character counter uses it for LLM output probably saves a lot of energy and it’s correct in most cases
@mkljczk surely many people are there for the exact reason I was: “my post was rejected for being over the character limit, but the site doesn’t live-preview the character count!”
@0xabad1dea @mkljczk
Wait, don't most people have a Python shell open at all times? Huh.
@petealexharris @mkljczk python shells also do not live-preview the character count.