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I hate to be the old guy yelling at the clouds, but was an LLM used to write parts of this? > Apple sold the walled garden as a feature. It wasn’t ashamed or h

I hate to be the old guy yelling at the clouds, but was an LLM used to write parts of this? > Apple sold the walled garden as a feature. It wasn’t ashamed or hiding the fact—it was proud of it... The iPhone’s locked-down nature wasn’t a restriction; it was a selling point. Please, write as a human, I promise you it's good enough. I'd much rather read something that's a bit clunky but human written than something that's very polished but leaves me wondering what the author actually was trying to say. Respect your reader, but most importantly, respect yourself as a writter too.

caconym_ 1y ago
LLMs only know how to use emdashes, semicolons, and ellipses because human writers used them first. The way I see it, a large part of "respecting yourself as a writer" in current year is not letting the mere existence of LLMs change how you write, just because a bunch of people have latched onto cheap signals like the presence of certain punctuation as a hallmark of LLM output. I don't really think an LLM wrote this, because the use of punctuation is actually a bit clumsy. However, I have no problem parsing the author's intended meaning.
- user_7832 1y ago
  It's not the semicolons or em dashes but the textual content that struck me as weird. > The iPhone’s locked-down nature wasn’t a restriction; it was a selling point. Was it really? I thought it was more about having 1 device that did it all when it launched, and app stores were a rather late addition if anything that still was more pro app store than pro lockdown. To be clear, I think most of the text in that article was human written. I have absolutely no issues with em dashes or other humane figures of speech that LLMs have unsurprisingly picked up on. But it was a few paragraphs here and there (like the example I gave) that felt odd and just out of place.
  - caconym_ 1y ago
    > Was it really? I thought it was more about having 1 device that did it all when it launched, and app stores were a rather late addition if anything that still was more pro app store than pro lockdown. I don't really agree with it either.
wiether 1y ago
I genuinely don't get what the issue is here.
- user_7832 1y ago
  It's just a bit jarring to read something that appears to be LLM written when you're assuming it's all human written. Though I do agree it's possible it's human written... It's just that the other paragraphs read nothing like that para.

caconym_ 1y ago

LLMs only know how to use emdashes, semicolons, and ellipses because human writers used them first. The way I see it, a large part of "respecting yourself as a writer" in current year is not letting the mere existence of LLMs change how you write, just because a bunch of people have latched onto cheap signals like the presence of certain punctuation as a hallmark of LLM output. I don't really think an LLM wrote this, because the use of punctuation is actually a bit clumsy. However, I have no problem parsing the author's intended meaning.

user_7832 1y ago
It's not the semicolons or em dashes but the textual content that struck me as weird. > The iPhone’s locked-down nature wasn’t a restriction; it was a selling point. Was it really? I thought it was more about having 1 device that did it all when it launched, and app stores were a rather late addition if anything that still was more pro app store than pro lockdown. To be clear, I think most of the text in that article was human written. I have absolutely no issues with em dashes or other humane figures of speech that LLMs have unsurprisingly picked up on. But it was a few paragraphs here and there (like the example I gave) that felt odd and just out of place.
- caconym_ 1y ago
  > Was it really? I thought it was more about having 1 device that did it all when it launched, and app stores were a rather late addition if anything that still was more pro app store than pro lockdown. I don't really agree with it either.

wiether 1y ago

I genuinely don't get what the issue is here.

user_7832 1y ago
It's just a bit jarring to read something that appears to be LLM written when you're assuming it's all human written. Though I do agree it's possible it's human written... It's just that the other paragraphs read nothing like that para.