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
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helpful mastodon users once again making me regret being perceived by letting me know that I can always edit my long internet posts to meet character length requirements via very convenient and user-friendly interactive textbox editor "wc -c"
@0xabad1dea I’m sure if you need help installing Linux you will find it. Or, especially, if you don’t.
@0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange "Give me money for my AI removal AI" is right up there on the offensively brazen stakes I have to admit.
@0xabad1dea this horror makes me feel validated in still opening a terminal and pulling out reliable ole `wc` for such cases
I misplaced it on one of my upgrades, but I used to have a tiny AppleScript that you could use as a Text Service in OS X that would pass the selected text to wc and pop up a little dialog with the character, word, and line counts. I should find it because my go-to of opening a terminal and doing pbpaste | wc tends to leave a load of terminals lying around.
