neighbours have installed the ACTUAL SUN on the side of their house?

[tigerlover1]

So the neighbours are having their house renovated, all very normal, lots of banging and sawing etc. Fine, I can cope. But today the builders installed what I can only describe as a star-level security light.

Previously they had a normal little motion sensor light — you know, the standard “pop out to the bins without tripping over the cat” level of brightness. NOW? Now it’s like they’ve strapped a NASA-grade solar flare to the wall. I swear my bedroom is lit up like I’m orbiting the sun closer than Mercury. If I open the curtains I half expect David Attenborough to narrate the birth of a new planet.

And the sensor?? Oh. My. God. It’s going off ALL night. Breeze? On. Moth flapping its wings three streets away? On. Me blinking too loudly? On.
I’m lying in bed feeling like I’m sleeping on the set of Interstellar.
WIBU to ring the builders tomorrow and politely ask if they can angle it down a bit or maybe ?

Some of us are actually capable of writing like that in real life, don't you know?

Oh I feel you. My neighbour has had the same for years for her dogs to go out and it drives me crazy.
So bright and shines right into my bedroom.
Thought about throwing a brick at it many a time

Send them an invoice for blackout blinds?

I'd prefer to engage with humans rather than computers. People forget that everything you type into AI models is retained. You are the product, so why make it easier for them?

Just speak to them. Like you said get them to angle it down.

Trot round with some good, frankincense and myrrh and ask for a peep at the new Messiah.

Mostly as generally doesn't bother me and I know them all - so if I wanted I could ask. I get my bathroom lit for free, I can draw the curtains in bed 1 and bed 2 will soon be able to draw curtains so not a massive issue except when we ant to see northern lights. Both turn them off when they are away too. Small inconvenience for fab neighbours to be honest (and I mean Fab we all do each other favours, hospital drop offs, shopping when ill, etc even the one down the road is an actual electrician and has rescued us and our ancient electrics at least twice.

Like an LLM? Why would you want to? It sounds contrived.

Quillbot analysis of OP says 100% human

https://quillbot.com/ai-content-detector

You do know people are capable of writing expressively?! Authors earn a living doing it! God help us if Chat GPT dumbs down society so much that all prose ends up being written along the lines of Janet and John books.

Would David Attenborough be narrating the birth of planets? Though he only dealt with animals and plants. Brian D:ream Cox would surely be a better bet.

We had similar with a neighbour at the back of our tiny terraces. The DC couldn't sleep as it was motion activated and set of by every passing cat at random times all night. It shone right in my son's bedroom window from about 20ft away 😡. Several houses spoke to them but they insisted it was a burglar deterrent. One neighbour with an air rifle sorted it out fairly quickly and we all denied knowledge.

Go see them as they may not realise. We had a new outdoor light installed, would turn it on if we left of a night so entrance would be lit up when we got home rather than fumbling in the dark to get in the house, esp with young kids.

Same time, a few blocks from home we noticed this really annoying light that obscured vision at the intersection, very bright and shining/reflecting into the intersection so visibility was poor. We were raging about this new light and how dangerous it was and had anyone complained to council etc.

Took us a while to realise it was our new light. We were absolutely mortified and rectified it as soon as we realised. We were just so grateful no accident had been caused in that time, was just luck really. Most people will happily fix things if told it’s an issue to others and didn’t know.

We had to alter ours after getting a letter from the council saying someone had complained. We did but I would have preferred them to come and ask us in person before immediately escalating it to the council especially because we weren't sure who it was bothering and which direction to move it!

Actually the fact that the OP uses en-dashes rather than em-dashes means that they're simply someone with decent literacy who's been trained in the British rather than American tradition.

It's one of the good things about the American basis of much of LLMs from a British English point of view.

And yes, OP, definitely tell them to angle it away and fix the sensor!

Just pausing everyone moaning about AI stop being such joy steamers ruining a lovely post and grow up AI is here to stay you sound like the previous generation when computers first came out ... climb out of the cave

I work extensively with AI models which is why the OPs writing style flagged for me.
It's a very useful tool, it saves me a huge amount of time coding, but for informal writing I'd much rather get a sense of people's own voice and style.

It abs must be so miserable to have so much headspace and time dedicated to believing strangers are out to deceive you and being willing to devote time and effort to disproving something so innocuous rather than doing something positive and productive.

Meh - no more time than you replying really.

I use AI all the time. That’s why I spotted it here.

But I come to Mumsnet for human voices, and I’m sure you do too. Forums like these will become redundant if they’re filled with AI posts and AI replies. Mumsnet doesn’t seem to like me pointing that out.

People can accept that AI is here to stay without embracing it. The idea that we should let language that's evolved over centuries be eroded by AI is frankly moronic.

It wasn't the em dashes that gave AI use away. It was the excessive rhetorical questions and overuse of similes and metaphors.

I use Chat GPT everyday and you get to recognise the style. A computer or 'AI detector' (which are rubbish anyway) can't do that.

Please could you write a book? I’ll buy it!