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If this hadn’t been published in 2015, you’d all call it AI slop: > When the German engineer Karl Benz invented the first petroleum-powered automobile, he did
by leobg 10mo ago
If this hadn’t been published in 2015, you’d all call it AI slop:
> When the German engineer Karl Benz invented the first petroleum-powered automobile, he did not just create an engine with wheels; he set in motion an industry that revolutionized the way society was structured.
- cjs_ac 10mo agoLLMs write like a high-schooler padding out an essay about something they only pretend to care about with vacuous adjectives and adverbs because that’s how most commercial writing reads.
- nkrisc 10mo agoWell sure, no one thinks LLMs invented bad writing, but they do copy the style.
- deIeted 10mo agoWell, that's human slop, and it's actually more insidious than AI slop. You know what's weird? We've had this for almost twenty years. This human slop in writing this is the first time ever that this painful writing has been addressed by someone else on a comment on the internet. I've raised it so many times, but it's the first time I've ever seen one other person acknowledge it. Like, how crazy is that? Is the last twenty years been a fever dream?
- bananaflag 10mo agoI've seen a lot of comments discussing how recipe pages are filled with this sort of human slop. But not blog posts in general.
- tomcam 10mo agoNot sure I agree. It's a fact.
- behringer 10mo agoAll he had to do to fix this was say "he drove forward" instead of set in motion. So close to a great simile.