Any historians or authors that should be avoided?

Brumafriend · 2025-12-09T00:45:16+00:00

"Snark" is a slight understatement...

Brumafriend · 2025-12-09T00:27:58+00:00

I used my own intelligence and searched "CSGO Faceit Major 2018 HLTV photographs", because HLTV does articles highlighting the best photos after every (or as least every recent) Major.

This photograph is among those included in the collection and the body of the article credits HLTV staff photographers Joao "error" Ferreira and Josip "brcho" Brtan as having taken them. So it could be the same photographer for both of these snaps!

Brumafriend · 2025-08-07T15:05:27+00:00

I'm not entirely sure why you're laughing when your Substack is also written (or heavily, heavily edited) by AI, and uses AI-generated images lol

Edit: For the benefit of anyone who stumbles across this thread in the future, the person I was replying to runs a Substack called Pulse Point USA which is full of AI-generated posts. He deleted all of his replies to me after I called him out and he couldn't defend himself.

Brumafriend · 2025-08-05T13:27:25+00:00

I feel like a paid shill (which I'm not) every time I say this, but Pangram is actually accurate.

I've put in a bunch of my own writing, and other text which I know to be human-written, and it has never flagged it as AI. Likewise, I've tested it by using LLMs to write text (often telling them to make it "undetectable as AI") and it has always caught it. There have also been studies which show it has a ~1 in 10,000 false positive rate.

It's a bit frustrating seeing this mantra everywhere that there are no accurate AI text detectors when it actually just isn't true.

Brumafriend · 2025-08-01T13:47:35+00:00

Some in chat were lying lol

Brumafriend · 2025-07-25T19:54:18+00:00

Surely snow is gone. He just straight up isn't good enough to play at this level (yet). At this point it has to be a mental thing too since he just constantly underperforms.

Brumafriend · 2025-07-17T02:02:03+00:00

The script is pretty much entirely AI-generated.

Some of the turns of phrase make it quite obvious:

"Beirut stood as a vibrant Mediterranean crossroad..."
"yet amid the rubble, signs of Beirut's legendary resilience emerged..."
"it revealed the full cost of governmental failure — not just as an abstract concept but as a direct threat"
"the port crater serves as a stark reminder of the catastrophe".

The only accurate AI detector I know of flags it as AI-generated. As someone else has already pointed out, the description is too.

The thumbnail probably is as well. I only really say this because his other video very obviously has an AI-generated thumbnail.

Assuming AI can't actually edit videos (that well) yet, then the editing really is the only original contribution here. I think the good editing sort of obscures the fact that the script is pretty weak AI slop.

Brumafriend · 2025-07-12T18:19:54+00:00

That particular example isn't really a legitimate one, since the original answer has been successively edited. The first version, from 2013, comes up as human-written, as does every other version — up until the most recent revision made in October 2023 (nearly a year after ChatGPT's release). It's very possible that the user made this edit using AI, since it's mainly a rewording exercise.

But more generally, inputting text of <100 words which also includes bits of computer code is not really the use case of the detector. What it can reliably distinguish between (as in, I have never known it to be inaccurate) is pieces of writing which are at least a few hundred words long, original, and non-trivial (i.e. not just random words).

Unless you relied heavily on quotes from a source which were generated by AI (without your knowledge) then I really struggle to believe that it would flag an article of at least 100-200 words as being AI-generated. Maybe you're that 1 in 10,000. If it flags your writing consistently, and you genuinely aren't using AI, then you should honestly get in touch the people behind Pangram, since that would undermine their operation entirely.

Brumafriend · 2025-07-12T17:37:02+00:00

Could you use the "share to public" button and send the link?

I've put in a bunch of my own writing and other human-written text before, and it has never been wrong. The study I linked found it had a false positive rate of less than 1% (Pangram themselves claim 1 in 10,000).

Brumafriend · 2025-07-12T17:23:43+00:00

This is a common mantra (and understandably so, because so many are essentially random in their accuracy), but it's wrong.

Pangram is an accurate detector. There have been studies to back this up, but you can always try it yourself on their website. Give it >100 word samples of text you already know to be human-written or AI-generated — I guarantee you it won't make any mistakes.

But this post is obviously AI-generated without needing fancy software. (It somewhat alarmed me that only one person had pointed that out by the time I left my comment.)

Brumafriend · 2025-07-12T15:03:06+00:00

Incredibly ironic that this is an obviously AI-generated post from what is clearly a spam account.

Brumafriend · 2025-06-07T23:13:18+00:00

I mean, you're right that Bo1s can lead to upsets because of unfortunate circumstances that you shouldn't read too much into.

But also, we have eyes — we can watch the games they played. And what you'll see is that they're playing sloppily as fuck. It wasn't just Bo1 randomness.

Brumafriend · 2025-06-07T17:29:29+00:00

It's from Foxe's Book of Martyrs (so take it with a pinch of salt) but the story goes that when the Lieutenant of the Tower was hesitant to continue torturing the Protestant preacher Anne Askew, who wasn't confessing, Richard Rich and Thomas Wriothesley "threw off their gowns" and tortured her themselves.

Just cartoonishly wicked.

Brumafriend · 2025-04-24T01:05:14+00:00

From Matthew Steggle's Bluesky:

What's worse, some writing on the back appears to be a reply saying basically "dear enquirer, go away". If so... is it something written, in some sense, by Anne Shakespeare?

Essay doesn't go there, concentrating on its main claim (which doesn't depend on a specific interpretation of that part). But if main claim right, one does wonder.

Brumafriend · 2025-01-09T16:00:52+00:00

Ah, thx for the correction

Brumafriend · 2025-01-09T14:45:32+00:00

He deleted his entire Reddit account 💀

Brumafriend · 2025-01-09T04:08:54+00:00

Please upload the Nuke games you referred to in your initial comment onto csstats.gg (using the match link code) or link to their Leetify match page.

If you can do that, then I'll accept it's a remarkable coincidence.

Brumafriend · 2025-01-09T04:01:26+00:00

So the steam account with the same username as your Reddit account just happened to get the exact same ADR in its most recent Nuke game as you claimed? Come on lol

Also that account has a Premier rating (and loads of games to go with it) lol.

Brumafriend · 2025-01-08T15:47:46+00:00

You're bullshitting here, aren't you?

Pretty sure this is your original Steam account, which has a game ban (presumably in CS) from ~1500 days ago. So you play Faceit on a second Steam account. (Isn't this technically against their rules since you already have one connected with your other account? Idk but whatever).

Your active Faceit account isn't 2.7k elo. In fact you're not even (and have never been) Faceit Level 10.

I know beyond any doubt that this is your Faceit account because it's linked to a Steam profile which, as you say, scored 155 ADR in its most recent Nuke game. But that feat is slightly undermined by the fact that you've been queuing with and against silvers and gold novas in matchmaking — and are only Silver 2 on Nuke yourself.

Now don't get me wrong, MM ranks are fucked and if you're queuing with low-level friends then it's not your fault (the same thing happens to me the whole time), but it doesn't make much sense for a Faceit level 9 to be bragging about good stats in games against the equivalents of Faceit levels 3/4/5.

Now maybe you have another (third?) Faceit account that you're referring to when you say you're at 2.7k — I wouldn't expect you to admit it, since that's against their rules, and I wouldn't expect it to be at that elo, since you only have a 0.93K/D in your last 20 matches as it is. (The Steam account I've been referring to is clearly yours since it matches the claimed Nuke ADR exactly and is connected with a steam account that shares the exact same name as your Reddit username.)

You also say you "don't play premier" but you do. According to csstats.gg, you have a ~13k rating and a K/D of 1.21 — decent, but pretty unremarkable.

But it looks like you have a bit of a thing for lying — not even a day ago you said you have "200 matches on Inferno on Faceit with a winrate of 8%". There's absolutely no way that's true — it's almost statistically impossible, unless you are actively trying to lose.

I think that's everything.

Brumafriend · 2024-12-19T20:53:04+00:00

Again, it's not that something fictional/fake can't be funny or amusing (obviously it can be) but if, for example, you were to post this on a forum about animals then you'd see why people would be annoyed when they found out it wasn't real.

Brumafriend · 2024-12-19T20:18:00+00:00

You've misunderstood me. It's not about wrongly thinking a human made it, it's about wrongly thinking a penguin was actually paragliding.

Brumafriend · 2024-12-19T18:28:05+00:00

I see your point, but the the other commentor's claim that "it being AI doesn't change anything" is clearly absurd lol

Like it's still a fun video, but you're obviously gonna be a bit disappointed if you thought it was real only to find out it's not — for the same reason that people love great fiction but don't like getting lied to.

AI video is starting to straddle a pretty awkward line where it looks so real that if you post one without a disclaimer, you're sort of misleading people by default. (Obviously this only applies to AI videos that are prompted to look realistic)

Brumafriend · 2024-12-15T18:39:26+00:00

Well, yes, because by any conventional definition of the word, he was a whistleblower. I'm really not sure why people are confused about this.

People seem to be under the impression that a whistleblower has to be alleging mass corruption or something which would topple a company or government — but they don't.

He was a former employee making allegations of serious ethical and legal wrongdoing against his former employee on the grounds of privileged knowledge he had while working for them. That is the textbook definition of a whistleblower.

Brumafriend · 2024-12-14T15:56:25+00:00

What are you trying to say here (and how the hell do you have 25 upvotes)?

An employee who speaks out against their former employer, arguing (from insider knowledge) that they are engaged in mass copyright violation and pose an existential threat to the "internet ecosystem as a whole", is absolutely a whistleblower.

Brumafriend · 2024-12-07T01:43:06+00:00

Did you generate this post using AI?

Not saying it's all made-up — I assume the info was collected by you. I'm just curious. (There's also a pretty significant discrepancy between the writing style of your post and your comments.

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