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There was a comment recently by HN's most enthusiastic LLM cheerleader, Simon Willison, that I stopped reading almost immediately (before seeing who posted it),
by _zagj 10mo ago
There was a comment recently by HN's most enthusiastic LLM cheerleader, Simon Willison, that I stopped reading almost immediately (before seeing who posted it), because it exuded the slop stench of an LLM: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46011877 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46011877
However, I was surprised to see that when someone (not me) accused him of using an LLM to write his comment, he flatly denied it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46011964 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46011964
Which I guess means (assuming he isn't lying) if you spend too much time interacting with LLMs, you eventually resemble one.
- Jweb_Guru 10mo ago> if you spend too much time interacting with LLMs, you eventually resemble one Pretty much. I think people who care about reducing their children's exposure to screen time should probably take care to do the same for themselves wrt LLMs.
- Philpax 10mo agoI don't know what to tell you: that really does not read like it was written by a LLM. You were perhaps set off by the very first sentence, which sounds like it was responding to a prompt?
- jph00 10mo agoIt reads exactly like all his writing over many years afaict. Which is to say - it reads well. Just because someone is clear, thoughtful, and thorough, does not make them an AI. AI writing is actually quite different to this.