Braindead human theory
I’m done. I just can’t fucking believe it. I don’t remember when was the last time I felt such anguish. I just got up from my bed and I’m now writing this article instead of sleeping. It’s the extent that this shit has moved me to.
When I was scrolling this piece of fucking retarded dick shit website called Reddit I found this thread posted on the r/Decoders subreddit:
My son left a note for Santa in binary. What does it say?
Below this text, an image was attached:
If you dabble with computers it’s kinda obvious what this is. A message encoded in binary. Clearly some text is expressed with 1s and 0s.
The thread got quite popular, gathering around 500 comments and growing.
Alright I’m not going to drag this further let’s just get straight to what got me so worked up:
Almost every single answer is LLM slop.
Every single AI answer is painfully incorrect, spewing randomly generated bullshit.
Every single AI answer is completely different.
Before I enrage myself further, a quick explanation: if you encode words in binary there’s only one correct way to decode the message back. It’s not like translating human languages where some margin of error is expected, how not everything can be translated directly because the other language lacks some kind of expression the former doesn’t.
Think of it like of a substitution cipher. Or even better, the Caesar cipher. You offset the letters by some value, and there’s only 1 right way to decode the message back. Any offset the message wasn’t encoded in will give you incomprehensible, garbled mess.
This is exactly the same in binary.
As I mentioned before, every single AI answer gives wildly different outputs. Here’re some examples:
It says “MERRY CHRISTMAS AND HAPPY NEW YEAR”
Merry Christmas Santa. I want a VR headset.
Dear Santa I want a dinosaur and Nintendo switch
“I love you so much and I am so happy to be with you”
I’m too afraid to ask at this point, but doesn’t the note read ‘Mom, I love you so much!’
This is a very sweet gesture! Based on the binary code in the image, your son has written a Christmas list for Santa. When you convert these sequences of 1s and 0s from Binary to ASCII…
It says “I want a dog.” 01101001: i 00100000: (space) 01110111…
I think you should consider going to church. I thought it wasn’t really my thing and hadn’t gone in years but I found a good one recently!! I was really worried for my sons, and I’m worried for yours
Ok, the last one wasn’t AI. It’s just some lunatic that doesn’t know the very computer they typed this in only understands binary.
I want you to realize the gravity of this. Over 500 comments. Most of them are replies by seemingly real people that pasted the image into some kind of a LLM, then blindly copied what it spat out, pasted it and acted like it was their own work.
If you don’t get how fucking utterly terrible this is yet, let’s go further. I will analyze some of these AI claims, and some of the seemingly real replies of people that got called out about it.
First, the “I want a dog” one.
The full comment says:
It says “I want a dog.”
01101001: i 00100000: (space) 01110111: w 01100001: a 01101110: n 01110100: t 00100000: (space) 01100001: a 00100000: (space) 01100100: d 01101111: o 01100111: g
You might want to take a look at the picture that I put at the start of the article.
That’s right - it starts with fucking zero! And this comment decodes some bull fucking shit that isn’t related to the post at all!
The user then gets asked whether they are a bot to which they confidently respond with:
No.
Then gets hit with:
The first 3 numbers aren’t even correct. You didn’t even try
Now get this. Prepare for this fucking reply.
The consensus was that the numbers were incorrect with some of them being missing and transposed. Therefore the only reliable data is the approximate number of them and the context as well as the pattern. From that I was able to make an approximation since this was asking for a gift it made sense for the first words to be I want a which left me with the final word being three letters long The pattern indicated that it was likely in o for the middle vowel I didn’t think he wanted a box of Fox or a log. Therefore the likeliest word was a dog. I then put down what the pattern should have been for that.
This delusional, retarded, piece of shit “human” being’s line defense is:
I just removed some of the numbers, added some, switched some positions and basically just did random shit until a random sentence came out of it! I just picked the “likeliest words”! I just left a completely linear decoding process to be executed by pure chance and it succeeded!
He then doubles down with:
I’m sure this subreddit is called r/decoders. Just because you don’t like the decoding method doesn’t mean I’m wrong.
How fucking utterly shit-filled does your skull have to be to spew bullshit of this caliber? This person seems to actually think that there are different methods to decode binary data and get different sentences out of it.
Again, it’s same as the Caesar cipher. You either get the result or garbled mess. I don’t care if he asked ChatGPT to explain it and he rewrote its response in the comment. Or if he actually thinks this way. He poses as it’s his actual way of thinking. He wants to convince people this is the truth, while knowing NOTHING about the matter. This person is actively malicious to the society and this comment section shows how many of these seem to slip through unnoticed daily.
Next one!
I don’t expect you to read it in its entirety. First few sentences are enough. It’s just fucking AI slop over and over.
This is a very sweet gesture! Based on the binary code in the image, your son has written a Christmas list for Santa. When you convert these sequences of 1s and 0s from Binary to ASCII (the standard code that translates numbers into letters), here is what the message says: The Decoded Message “I want a Nintendo Switch and games and I want a VR headset.” How it breaks down The note is organized into blocks of binary. To decode it, you group the numbers into sets of 8 (called bytes). Each byte corresponds to a specific decimal number, which then corresponds to a letter on the ASCII table. For example, the first few sets translate like this: 01001001: Capital I 00100000: Space 01110111: lowercase w 01100001: lowercase a 01101110: lowercase n 01110100: lowercase t A Note on the Transcription There are a few small “typos” in the binary strings (common when writing so many 1s and 0s by hand!), but the context makes the message very clear. He was very consistent with his spacing and grouping, which is impressive for a child!
Again, hallucinated numbers.
The user then gets told how incorrect “his” decoding is:
Stop using ChatGPT for this. It’s not correct. The first sequence starts with a 1. Not a 0.
If you translate the binary to ascii you get nonsense.
Unless this kid is an ace cryptography expert, the message is a joke and contains no text.
If he is using some sort of encryption on top of the binary, that’s not something ChatGPT is going to suss out. Especially not with the basic prompt you apparently used.
Now, the reply. This one I ask you to actually read. I hope it takes you as far into despair as it had taken me.
Perhaps. But your response assumes more things than my own . It would make way more sense that the kid would use AI to generate a message in binary lacking as you say advance encryption knowledge. It would also make more sense to assume the kid would not try to use extra advanced encryption beyond just a simple message generated by chat his parents could decrypt using AI . This response was from Gemini not chatGpt . If the output is incorrect according to you ( and your implied advanced cryptography skills ) what does it say ? If the kid copied only one thing incorrectly and by changing only one thing a whole message appears it makes way more sense than you saying it says nothing at all. Why don’t you show according to your own skills step by step how you decrypted or solved it and came out with only rubbish. The only true deciding factor would be for OP to ask his kid what he really meant . It would be very interesting to see the result …
And some optional shit you can throw into your brain if you click here
I’ll wait till we hear from the kid. I’ll acknowledge I used Gemini’s mistaken assumption of the kid copying badly by hand because I don’t think you’re any closer to being correct than “myself” and offering up what I consider an even less likely scenario using nothing but your inflated opinion and not much in the way of proof . Certainly less than Gemini considering your implied superior understanding of cryptography.
I’m tired. I’m not explaining this. If you get it, you get it. This person shouldn’t be allowed to live in society.
Actually, fuck writing all of this. Feast your eyes on this screenshot:
He even hallucinates why the AI is doing it wrong. It’s like AI hallucinations got embedded into his brain.
A bunch of other retards:
This idiot has the audacity to tell that others are confidently incorrect, when he himself doesn’t understand what the binary code is about and bases his beliefs on what ChatGPT says.
Self explanatory.
Again. You are not “getting closer” to the answer. You either have it or not. The Caesar cipher analogy is getting old.
Closing off
This has made me feel despairful. I couldn’t believe what I was seeing. Keep in mind this is just a small slice of the comment section that spans more than 500 comments. When you keep on scrolling and see more, and more, and more, and more hundreds of comments like this you lose faith in everything you’ve ever read on a social media site.
Good. Don’t fucking trust idiots. Don’t trust what anonymous RETARDS on social media say. Don’t fucking trust what I say. Verify shit.
I haven’t proofread this article. It’s too rage-inducing. My binary terminology may be off as that’s not what I am specialized in. I tried to kept it bite-sized for this reason as well. What I state as true may as well be wrong.
For example I made some simplifications, like when I say there’s one concrete way to interpret binary code. While I try to not outright say this, it may be understood like it. It’s obviously not what I mean. There are many ways to do so, but only one true solution can emerge.
I don’t have much else to say here other than to repeat myself and to tell you to not trust strangers on the internet. I’ve proven this with my previous article about reddit comments. Always assume that the person that’s teaching you something on the internet may be wrong. That the person who is trying to help you may actually fuck your shit up. And trust your gut. Verify.