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Unfortunately and ironically this has all the marks of AI writing. > The problem isn’t the intention—it’s the architecture. You can’t optimize one part of a ch
by chizhik-pyzhik 1y ago
Unfortunately and ironically this has all the marks of AI writing.
> The problem isn’t the intention—it’s the architecture. You can’t optimize one part of a child and expect the rest to unfold naturally. Learning isn’t modular. Once efficiency takes hold, it doesn’t stay in its lane. It reshapes what matters.
use of "not this — that", em dash, staccato sentences to make a point, unnecessary metaphor, etc
I stopped reading at this point.
- DHPersonal 1y agoLLMs use em dashes because they were trained on content made by actual writers. Actual writers still exist and they still use em dashes.
- kccqzy 1y agoEither actual writers who care about typography, or actual writers who have had their writings edited by a real editor. Or even anyone just curious enough about writing that they picked up a manual of style.
- parpfish 1y agoi'm a frequent em-dash user. it's great for little appositive clauses because it can make the sentence feel less cluttered than commas. but i have no idea how to type an em-dash. you just put in a double-dash/hyphen (i.e. "--") and any modern word processors will know to convert it to an em-dash for you. I suspect that lots of writers who use this trick are getting unfairly slammed with "omg, youre an AI! no human knows how to type that character!"
- kirubakaran 1y agoYou're conveniently replying to the weakest point of the parent comment. They listed a several more reasons, and when taken together, the article reeks of LLM generated content.
- sctb 1y agoOf course, they certainly do. But this article is really something else! I don't care if it's written by AI or not, but it has a rhetorical style that relies much more on rhythm than on connecting the conceptual dots. Like a TED talk or a revivalist preacher.
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- jihadjihad 1y agoCmd-F for em dash `—`: > 72 results It doesn't prove anything but it's a highly suggestive signature. I would hazard a guess that it would be rare for most writers to use an em dash every other sentence.
- snapcaster 1y agoYou don't have a lot of experience with LLMs if this isn't immediately identifiable as ChatGPT generated
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- intended 1y agoYeah, this reads as AI Generated. The opening para, and several subsequent paras, have this specific flow that I associate with an LLM asked to write an essay.
- djeastm 1y agoI also felt my AI spidey-sense tingle and just threw the article into an LLM to summarize for me. Oh, what a world we live in.
- somebodythere 1y agoLLM argumentative essays tend to have this "gish-gallop" energy; say a bunch of tenuously related and vaguely supported things, leave the reader wondering if it was the author who failed to connect the dots, or them
- zahlman 1y agoYes, so do human ones (just not the ones that filter through to you). The output is like this because the training data is like this.
- esseph 1y agoYou just described my personal writing style :(
- PeeMcGee 1y agoIt happens as soon as the fourth sentence (maybe even the third): > There was a silence at the table—not confusion, but recognition. Then keeps happening again and again and again to the point where it would be obnoxious even if a human wrote it. It's unbelievable to me that there's a kind of person who would publish an article about learning that is so obviously AI generated, and from a professor nonetheless. Maybe this is some sort of experiment or an ironic joke that went over my head.