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My weird new hobby: Wandering around Tokyo on Google Maps

429 points · 181 comments · ahmedhossamdev

N7lo4nl34akaoSN · 1790291252 · focus · HN ↗
If you've talked to ChatGPT enough this is instantly recognizable as AI writing. It's this kind of romantic hacker poetic ad copy thing. The short little punchy sentences. The sentence fragments. The repetition. This new age Instagram drama: flash talk for goddesses and sunsets.
I guess it works! But it's gross. lol.
1. damontal · 1790299165 · focus · HN ↗
  Immediate tell: Same street. Same place. 2009.
  1. alias_neo · 1790322337 · focus · HN ↗
    This absoluteness bothered me; the car clearly wasn't in the same exact place, yet it was mentioned at least twice. I think that's what tipped me off to the AI writing.
    The car was further in/out of the drive in the two shots, the wheel orientation was different, the window shade was different; all of which made the commentary on it not being abandoned ridiculous; of course someone parks their car back on their own drive, and it'll be in almost the same place, give or take a meter or two.

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