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I can't quite tell if this is written by an LLM (and aided by a person, re: the developer is known) or the writing style is just so prolific that LLMs cant help
by bongobingo1 3y ago
I can't quite tell if this is written by an LLM (and aided by a person, re: the developer is known) or the writing style is just so prolific that LLMs cant help but ape it.
I think it's because every sentence is pretty short.
These sentences end up being related, and should probably be just one paragraph.
The writing style seems to separate everything out, I can say this might be what gives the impression of a LLM gluing parts together!
I wonder if they received a McDonalds presser, and I wonder how much of those are still human-in-the-loop.
- jonny_eh 3y agoI can't quite tell if this comment is written by an LLM (and aided by a person) or the writing style is just so prolific that LLMs cant help but ape it. I think it's because every sentence is pretty short. These sentences end up being related, and should probably be just one paragraph. The writing style seems to separate everything out, I can say this might be what gives the impression of a LLM gluing parts together!
- bongobingo1 3y agoYes very funny. The sentence triplet is an intentional play at the articles style, including LLMs over-bright disposition. Thanks for playing though!
- qingcharles 3y agoThis is exactly what an LLM would say. Nice try, Open AI.
- throitallaway 3y agoI call this the Twitter effect. Artificial limitations encourage the use of short and snappy communications. Also, who can be bothered to read through a paragraph today? I live my life one sentence at a time.
- HKH2 3y agoWriters write books and articles when they haven't got anything to write about. Songwriters write songs when they haven't got anything to sing about. Directors make movies when they haven't got anything to make a movie about. Copies of copies of copies... It's no wonder people are tired. Where is the substance? Where is the risk?
- tredre3 3y agoWell the author, Anthony, is a digital nomad who's known for minimal effort fluff pieces so it would seem like a natural progression to use LLMs. At some point retro dodo might skip the middle name and render him unemployed. I know I sound bitter but it's because retro dodo used to be a high quality production shop (still mostly is, to be fair). Though I understand that it wasn't sustainable for the original two guys to do everything alone (they've branched from blogging to youtubing to even book publishing after all)
- mawadev 3y agoThe entire page on mobile is a wall of ads with text padded around it.
- jedberg 3y agoFWIW I use a lot of line breaks when commenting on HN. Mainly because the text goes to a large width, and lot of folks on here use very wide screens. I like to make sure my main points are easily readable.
- HaZeust 3y agoI see what you did there.
- Clent 3y agoThe article is suggesting a ROM, I don't think McDonalds would risk Nintendo's ire.