userbinator8 hours ago
Mentally autocorrected the title to "paypal cipher" and got enticed to click...
More seriously, this looks like the context modeling that advanced compression algorithms do, but in reverse.
Recovering the key does not settle the text.
That said, the Claudish in this article is only slightly annoying.
raphlinus8 hours ago
I had a sense. Pangram identifies this as AI.
userbinator7 hours ago
Definitely, although a bit less annoying to read than the usual level of Claudish, so it was either edited or the AI is improving.
cryptonector3 hours ago
> or the AI is improving.
I hope not.
esafak7 hours ago
I knew it was going to be cryptography. Everybody's cracking something these days. See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49738551
lubujackson9 hours ago
Love this analysis!