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is this slop? is this an ad? it's both! dont bother reading this. besides the overwrought statement in the title there is nothing novel or intellectually stimu

is this slop? is this an ad? it's both! dont bother reading this. besides the overwrought statement in the title there is nothing novel or intellectually stimulating here, and it wants to sell you something.

jimbokun 1y ago
It's an ad but the jQuery analogy is apt. Probably could have said it in much fewer words, though.
- AznHisoka 1y ago
  >> Probably could have said it in much fewer words, though. So in other words, it's AI slop
antoniojtorres 1y ago
It has all the tells, em dashes as far as the eye can see, it even has the “Let me explain” from ChatGPT.
- tobihrbr 1y ago
  I wrote the post in notion which converts "--" to emdashes automatically.
- mock-possum 1y ago
  Also more than a few “it’s not X, it’s Y”
didacusc 1y ago
Thank you for saving me many minutes. It has happened more and more recently that 'interesting' headlines lead to AI slop blog posts and it just all feels like such a waste of time. Sad that content has degenerated in this way.
tobihrbr 1y ago
It's an honest opinion that I had put into a blog post. It's written by me, though I did use LLMs to review and improve it (no copy pasting). I still feel like the analogy between early browsers and the current state of AI stands. There is in a sense a war being fought out and there are emerging standard and there is lot's of glue around that to make it work.
- mock-possum 1y ago
  For what it’s worth, I did think it was an interesting line of thought - The thing about LLM-generated content is that in order to get tracking it can’t look like it. Can’t read like it, can’t use the wording or the style of prose. It’s too much of a turnoff, it provokes revulsion. You’re better off doing the opposite - use the LLM to help you with your initial content, then finish it yourself, taking care to remove the ‘tells’
mock-possum 1y ago
Isn’t it a rule that if you’re going to write about LLMs you have to use an LLM to do it?

jimbokun 1y ago

It's an ad but the jQuery analogy is apt. Probably could have said it in much fewer words, though.

AznHisoka 1y ago
>> Probably could have said it in much fewer words, though. So in other words, it's AI slop

antoniojtorres 1y ago

It has all the tells, em dashes as far as the eye can see, it even has the “Let me explain” from ChatGPT.

tobihrbr 1y ago
I wrote the post in notion which converts "--" to emdashes automatically.
mock-possum 1y ago
Also more than a few “it’s not X, it’s Y”

didacusc 1y ago

Thank you for saving me many minutes. It has happened more and more recently that 'interesting' headlines lead to AI slop blog posts and it just all feels like such a waste of time. Sad that content has degenerated in this way.

tobihrbr 1y ago

It's an honest opinion that I had put into a blog post. It's written by me, though I did use LLMs to review and improve it (no copy pasting). I still feel like the analogy between early browsers and the current state of AI stands. There is in a sense a war being fought out and there are emerging standard and there is lot's of glue around that to make it work.

mock-possum 1y ago
For what it’s worth, I did think it was an interesting line of thought - The thing about LLM-generated content is that in order to get tracking it can’t look like it. Can’t read like it, can’t use the wording or the style of prose. It’s too much of a turnoff, it provokes revulsion. You’re better off doing the opposite - use the LLM to help you with your initial content, then finish it yourself, taking care to remove the ‘tells’

mock-possum 1y ago

Isn’t it a rule that if you’re going to write about LLMs you have to use an LLM to do it?