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30% of the corporate blog links on HN the last 4 weeks have mysterious distance from the facts they purport to relay. Then, they pivot to something vaguely re
by refulgentis 1y ago
30% of the corporate blog links on HN the last 4 weeks have mysterious distance from the facts they purport to relay.
Then, they pivot to something vaguely related that is more fun to talk about.
The distance is never closed, and then you're hit by the ur-slop: "That's not X—its Y" and realize where we're at: it used to be a good idea for SEO to write informative blog entries, then it got outsourced from subject matter experts to marketing, then it got delegated to the interns, then the interns got told to use an LLM. And I love LLMs! Just makes me smile and wish for a new way to run links sites.
- myrmidon 1y agoI'm curious if AI writing style is going to leach into human use and possibly even self-reinforce. I also really don't understand why it is apparently so difficult to teach LLMs not to repeat the same sloppy sentence style multiple times per paragraph...