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It's interesting how easy it is to spot LLM-written text after you familiarize yourself with its general writing style (at least for the GPT-based models).
by cowbolt 1y ago
It's interesting how easy it is to spot LLM-written text after you familiarize yourself with its general writing style (at least for the GPT-based models).
- loloquwowndueo 1y agoDunno man, it doesn’t have a pointless “conclusions” section - llms always do that.
- mikepurvis 1y agoMy high school English teachers would be so happy.
- smartmic 1y agoAre you saying this was written by an LLM? Can you give examples for your assertion?
- Cheer2171 1y agoIt's so obvious mate, the Velocity is Not Progress section is the worst.
- twoodfin 1y agoFrequent bullet lists. Bolded key phrases. Varying sentence length for emphasis. “Not X, Y” phrasing structure. Pervasive second-person perspective. I mean it’s possible somebody just writes like that, but I wouldn’t bet money on it.
- delta_p_delta_x 1y agoThe cadence and sentence structure is very obvious; GPT-based LLMs somehow just tend to be very haughty by default. There's the very slogan-esque 'X? Verb-in-past-tense. Y? Another-verb-in-past-tense' sort of sentences that're a dead give-away that something is written by an LLM. Also weird similes and constructions that make grammatical and even contextual sense, but don't really exist in English.
- davidrupp 1y agoI'm intrigued, as this article did not trigger my (clearly as yet underdeveloped) GenAI spidey sense. Will you share some specifics of what triggered yours? Separately, do you have any thoughts on the subject matter? Whoever or whatever put these words in a row, they resonate deeply with my lived experience of the last several years.
- Cthulhu_ 1y agoThe brown comic image is a dead giveway too, does anyone know why so many of these have this weird pastel / brown color? I mean it fits with the theme of the page so it might just be confirmation bias or chance (that is, I don't notice the AI generated comics that aren't brown).
- phtrivier 1y agoAlternative: the author actually wrote the words (because that's their opinion, and they want to share it to the world) and generated the comic with AI (as it's just a way to illustrate, and they're less proficient with drawing than with writing.) I dabbled in writing, I would have hated for random people to assume my posts where AI generated, especially given that such a claim is practically unfalsifiable at this point. (Comment guaranteed 100% human generated.)
- sybercecurity 1y agoOne theory is it is the feedback from all the Ghibli stuff that went on a few months back. These tones first started appearing there for skin tone or even sky, then started appearing everywhere.
- MrJohz 1y agoI think it's just the bland "thought leader" LinkedIn-style post - I don't think it's LLM-specific, but rather lowest common denominator writing that's very easy to write and reproduce and therefore easy to mimic with your favourite LLM. EDIT: Although with just how generic the advice here is, and the ChatGPT images, this feels like a particularly egregious example of just dumping out LLM-generated content.
- bell-cot 1y agoPlausibly correct...but humans were writing drivel to various subject and style spec's back when the CEO's official title was "Pharaoh". And any 2000's-era web designer learned that the client's actual content was often a downgrade from Lorem ipsum. So "LLM-written" works as an insult, but it doesn't seem useful as a category for written works.
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- sceptic123 1y agoCan you expand on what about this article leads you to think that?