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 ?

You need to recruit a marksman, shoot the fucker out!

Floral language? Do you mean florid?

The birth of a new planet 😆

You wouldn’t need a marksman I could hit that fecker!

The worrying thing, or one of them, is that any widespread negative online opinion such as this one here (objecting to any literate English as de facto AI-generated), is that these things become dogma, and very swiftly fact.

I don't know if it’s the algorithm thing (which I don't really grasp, any more than I can spot AI text) but certainly modern ‘echo chamber’ reading makes this phenomenon inevitable.

I think many of the aspects of contemporary culture with which I’m shockingly out of step are created by this online fanning of the flames of outrage, but those flames are just those on an old ‘log effect’ electric fire, yet we are expected to accept cultural shifts on these supposed grassroots movements and opinions. (Worse, really, since public policy is being moulded by such declarations and demands)

Harrumph! 😤

Yanbu
10/10 for narrative

I also use AI all the time, which is why I spotted the en dash. This is a fun thread of competitive AI use that none of us can back up. I've also worked writing and editing for the best part of three decades so I've had the opportunity to see the full gamut of what the LLMs are now trained on, from the sparse to the insanely overworked.

What's fascinating to me now is how LLMs are going to influence people's writing styles in the future, in the same way that traditional prose has done in the past.

Maybe OP's post is AI generated, maybe it's not. I don't really care. It's a post about a bright light.

But honestly, I find life a lot more pleasant to go into things that affect me in no real way whatsoever by expecting the best rather than hunting for the worst. If something twigs my spidey senses, I just scroll on by.

Mumsnet is becoming way more redundant to me based on combativeness and posters determined to take down and "expose" others than thinking "hmm, is it real or AI generated?" It just makes it such a tedious and unpleasant experience.

My neighbour has multicoloured lights that change colour and flash like a strobe all night, lighting up my entire house. If they don't want to take them down, nothing will make them.

Do, OP! I had exactly this happen, too.
A non-residential premises next to my house (and built on an incline) installed a new super-sensitive security light directed straight into my bedroom.
It was about fifteen yards away, I’d guess. Impossible to screen out (impossible to imagine a brighter light existed).
I wrote to the place asking that it be removed since apparently even a passing bat would switch it on, and the yard there is also a centre for frolicking foxes in the wee small hours.
Thus the light was on more than it was off, and once on, it stayed on until a guard came in the morning.

Angling made no difference since the flood of light wasn’t diminished. But fair play to the place; they agreed to decommission the light and rethink the needs for overnight security.
No idea what they have now, but that confounded light has remained covered by what looks like an old gabardine mac ever since!

Your neighbours might have less concern than a commercial outfit would about good relations, but all the same, tell them this is intolerable and no doubt illegal, and that you hope you can encourage them to agree that the light is unnecessary in any case, and also that you look forward to maintaining good neighbourly rapport with no need to involve the authorities or even the law.
(Cripes, what a long sentence)

A letter from the council saying they've been reported for light trespass and threatening further action should!

The council weren’t interested.

Keep reporting it. Every single day if necessary until they take it seriously. Speak to your ward councillor too for a direct approach.

I was that neighbour.

I didn’t realise the effect it was having on my neighbour until they spoke to me.

we adjusted it immediately and I am so glad they spoke to me

This might help, OP

https://www.hja.net/expert-comments/opinion/residential-property-disputes/understanding-statutory-light-nuisance-claims-in-england/

This 😂😂😂😂

For AI? No. It made me laugh and thinks she’s real.

So all you put in was "create a light hearted post about a neighbour’s security light shining in my room"?

Ditto 🤣🤣🤣

Brilliantly written OP! I can barely see my keyboard through tears of laughter and DH is snorting! Hope you get it sorted out. And you are very very not unreasonable.

Yabu for using chatgpt to write your post

Precisely

I don't think anyone comes to Mumsnet to read endless tedious accusations of posters using AI and starting pointlessly inevitable arguments about it either... 🤷

Interesting. Every time I use AI it comes across as some sort of pompous arrogant twat... 😂

Write a funny post for mumsnet about neighbour’s security light being too bright

AIBU to think my neighbour has installed the actual sun on the side of their house?

Honestly, every time a leaf rustles within a five-mile radius, their new security light blasts on like it’s the opening ceremony of the Olympics. Last night it clicked on at 3am and my entire bedroom lit up so brightly I briefly thought I’d died and was being welcomed into the afterlife. Nope — just a cat walking past the bins.

It’s got to the point where I’m timing my baby’s night feeds by it. Forget circadian rhythms — we’re on Neighbour’s Lighthouse Mode now.

I swear if I stand in the garden too long I’m going to develop photosynthesis.

What do I even do? Go round and politely ask if they could dim their personal star? Knock on the door wearing sunglasses and say “Hi, just popped over from the day side of the planet”?

Has anyone successfully negotiated a ceasefire with a security light before?

Help, I’m living in a 24-hour Tesco car park.