This is a very obviously AI written article, I don't get why these newspapers think that this is the future. Just look at this, but this style is all over the entire article: "Graphics cards are typically the most expensive components in a computer. So, when you get your hands on one for free, it's like the universe finally throwing a bone at you, rewarding you for years of kindness and suffering. Then, if that GPU suddenly gets enveloped in a legal feud, you start to second-guess your alliances, shattering loyalties in a moment"
Absolutely not. Tom's Hardware is known for this kind of colorful but also lazy writing, but it's an ok news site that has been around for decades. And maybe the author might have used a trickle of AI, but I don't see any sign that any significant amount of this article is AI.
Additionally, even though they're not fully reliable, most popular AI detectors rate this article as 100% human.
You can see this author has been writing similar low-effort listicles and articles since well before ChatGPT came out. The writing style also matches:
hm I guess it's possible, they show a similar kind of very mechanical writing style across two different authors from before AI was a thing. Maybe that's unfortunate for them because it's similar to how AI would enumerate facts to tell a story.
> The firm gradually grew more contentious, demanding that the RTX 5060 be handed in because the event it was acquired at was part of a business trip, entirely paid for by the company. The employee would never have won the GPU had the firm not enabled him to attend the venue. Our winner refused, arguing that it belonged to him because he had won it on his own by pure luck.
Hmm...I feel like the company's reasoning here is almost acceptable. Almost, because I know as a (paid) employee, all of the code I write, any inventions or IP I come up with are the company's property, so it almost makes sense that the company might also want to assert its right to claim that any physical things given or gifted in the course of work-related trips that employees take on company time.
but the article mentions the winner was an intern, not an employee, and I know many interns i've worked with never actually signed an employment agreement, because they dont actually get paid. They sign NDAs but not full on employment agreements, so how can any company treat them like an employee? if I wasn't getting paid, I'd 100% hold my ground like the intern did and take it.
Raffles are meant to increase engagement and participation, and getting conference participants to interact with prize sponsors and remain until the closing remarks. If employers started to demand that any prizes won be considered property of the company instead of the person who won, participants would likely start paying less attention and probably skip raffle activities altogether.
to be fair, he quit because he (rightly!) disagreed with the company's petty-minded insistence that the prize belonged to them, not because he valued a graphics card over his internship.
It’s like the days when I traveled for work, and some bright spark in finance said the bonus points belonged to the company. We had a few go-arounds about it. It got ugly in the company, and I refused to fly. Then about a dozen other employees refused to fly. I still went to customer locations, but I drove. What could be a one day trip to Chicago became 3 days out, one day there, 3 days back. Mileage, food and hotels were easily 4 times the cost of the flights. They backed down.
...some mockingly asking whether the firm would've maintained the same tenacity and reimbursed the Intern had he been fined 50,000 RMB at the event instead
This is a very obviously AI written article, I don't get why these newspapers think that this is the future. Just look at this, but this style is all over the entire article: "Graphics cards are typically the most expensive components in a computer. So, when you get your hands on one for free, it's like the universe finally throwing a bone at you, rewarding you for years of kindness and suffering. Then, if that GPU suddenly gets enveloped in a legal feud, you start to second-guess your alliances, shattering loyalties in a moment"
Absolutely not. Tom's Hardware is known for this kind of colorful but also lazy writing, but it's an ok news site that has been around for decades. And maybe the author might have used a trickle of AI, but I don't see any sign that any significant amount of this article is AI.
Additionally, even though they're not fully reliable, most popular AI detectors rate this article as 100% human.
You can see this author has been writing similar low-effort listicles and articles since well before ChatGPT came out. The writing style also matches:
https://web.archive.org/web/20200811132340/https://appuals.c...
https://web.archive.org/web/20221021195546/https://www.wepc....
hm I guess it's possible, they show a similar kind of very mechanical writing style across two different authors from before AI was a thing. Maybe that's unfortunate for them because it's similar to how AI would enumerate facts to tell a story.
I'm pretty sure I don't want bones to be thrown at me.
/barf
Thanks for saving me the read, I wish we(or the HN team) could flag these posts as AI-authored.
per HN these days every article is AI written so you can stop reading all together :)
Only every article one dislikes.
Sends shivers down your spine :)
> The firm gradually grew more contentious, demanding that the RTX 5060 be handed in because the event it was acquired at was part of a business trip, entirely paid for by the company. The employee would never have won the GPU had the firm not enabled him to attend the venue. Our winner refused, arguing that it belonged to him because he had won it on his own by pure luck.
Hmm...I feel like the company's reasoning here is almost acceptable. Almost, because I know as a (paid) employee, all of the code I write, any inventions or IP I come up with are the company's property, so it almost makes sense that the company might also want to assert its right to claim that any physical things given or gifted in the course of work-related trips that employees take on company time.
but the article mentions the winner was an intern, not an employee, and I know many interns i've worked with never actually signed an employment agreement, because they dont actually get paid. They sign NDAs but not full on employment agreements, so how can any company treat them like an employee? if I wasn't getting paid, I'd 100% hold my ground like the intern did and take it.
Raffles are meant to increase engagement and participation, and getting conference participants to interact with prize sponsors and remain until the closing remarks. If employers started to demand that any prizes won be considered property of the company instead of the person who won, participants would likely start paying less attention and probably skip raffle activities altogether.
to be fair, he quit because he (rightly!) disagreed with the company's petty-minded insistence that the prize belonged to them, not because he valued a graphics card over his internship.
Salaries for interns in China are low enough that a 5060 is a huge deal.
It sounds like he quit because HR told him to:
> HR then told the intern to "look for another company," and he submitted his resignation that night.
I quit a company because they tried to appropriate points on my credit card gathered by their business travel.
It’s like the days when I traveled for work, and some bright spark in finance said the bonus points belonged to the company. We had a few go-arounds about it. It got ugly in the company, and I refused to fly. Then about a dozen other employees refused to fly. I still went to customer locations, but I drove. What could be a one day trip to Chicago became 3 days out, one day there, 3 days back. Mileage, food and hotels were easily 4 times the cost of the flights. They backed down.
This is an extremely salient point:
...some mockingly asking whether the firm would've maintained the same tenacity and reimbursed the Intern had he been fined 50,000 RMB at the event instead
Who are the amorphous blob of Chinese netizens who control the cultural dialogue in the world?
Dunno, but I like the Chinese Doomscroll substack for a daily glimpse into what they're talking about. https://substack.com/@weibo
Company should plainly be banned from the event thereon.
Dear Penthouse...
[flagged]
I find that very difficult to believe
I envy your optimism
Well, you can send me a graphics card and find out.
Calm down Amber Heard.