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Are you saying this was generated by ChatGPT? It didn't seem that way to me at all... what gave that away to you?

by dataflow 10mo ago

arresin 10mo ago
Are you being sarcastic? If not it’s obvious once you’ve seen it often enough.
- dataflow 10mo ago
  No, I was serious. Perhaps I haven't seen it enough to be able to tell.
skrebbel 10mo ago
> Putting it all together: a mental model that actually works dead giveaway
- dataflow 10mo ago
  I agree that part sounds very ChatGPT-ish (and I didn't notice it before), but just one line generated by AI doesn't indicate to me the text was mostly generated by AI... does it to you? I could totally see the original text being improved by AI here and there in small pieces.
kokada 10mo ago
Things like "The misconception", "The key truth", "Why ... choose ...", "Putting it all together", "Notice what didn't happen". But not just that but the general wording of this post. From the words of ChatGPT itself: > The post follows a “classic” structure: introduce a common misconception → explain what’s wrong → show concrete examples → give a clear takeaway / conclusion. The paragraphs are well balanced, each chunk delivering a precise logical step. While that’s good for clarity, it also can feel like the “standard template” many AI-based or marketing blog posts tend to follow. Now, if could just be a very well written blog post too. But I feel that AI just naturally converges to the same basic structure, while a human written post generally will miss one or two of those "good practices" for prose that actually ends up making the blog post more interesting (because we don't always need to have all these structures to make something enjoyable to read).
- dataflow 10mo ago
  Interesting. I'm probably just lacking in experience with this. I see it better now that you mention it, though it's not clear to me how significant of a component AI would've been...
misiek08 10mo ago
I think that completely useless example, wrong assumptions that other languages will give different output for it and only bragging about how Python’s model is great, because it gives you the differentiation you can’t understand. I hope we will get some filtering on HN, so we don’t waste time on such slops

Are you saying this was generated by ChatGPT? It didn't seem that way to me at all... what gave that away to you?

arresin 10mo ago

Are you being sarcastic? If not it’s obvious once you’ve seen it often enough.

dataflow 10mo ago
No, I was serious. Perhaps I haven't seen it enough to be able to tell.

skrebbel 10mo ago

> Putting it all together: a mental model that actually works dead giveaway

dataflow 10mo ago
I agree that part sounds very ChatGPT-ish (and I didn't notice it before), but just one line generated by AI doesn't indicate to me the text was mostly generated by AI... does it to you? I could totally see the original text being improved by AI here and there in small pieces.

kokada 10mo ago

Things like "The misconception", "The key truth", "Why ... choose ...", "Putting it all together", "Notice what didn't happen". But not just that but the general wording of this post. From the words of ChatGPT itself: > The post follows a “classic” structure: introduce a common misconception → explain what’s wrong → show concrete examples → give a clear takeaway / conclusion. The paragraphs are well balanced, each chunk delivering a precise logical step. While that’s good for clarity, it also can feel like the “standard template” many AI-based or marketing blog posts tend to follow. Now, if could just be a very well written blog post too. But I feel that AI just naturally converges to the same basic structure, while a human written post generally will miss one or two of those "good practices" for prose that actually ends up making the blog post more interesting (because we don't always need to have all these structures to make something enjoyable to read).

dataflow 10mo ago
Interesting. I'm probably just lacking in experience with this. I see it better now that you mention it, though it's not clear to me how significant of a component AI would've been...

misiek08 10mo ago

I think that completely useless example, wrong assumptions that other languages will give different output for it and only bragging about how Python’s model is great, because it gives you the differentiation you can’t understand. I hope we will get some filtering on HN, so we don’t waste time on such slops