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I dislike this dramatization in reporting of mundane facts. So report the facts but sentences like "What Wei probably didn’t tell Cook is that Apple may no lon
by ndr42 9mo ago
I dislike this dramatization in reporting of mundane facts.
So report the facts but sentences like "What Wei probably didn’t tell Cook is that Apple may no longer be his largest client" make it personal, they make you take sides, feel sorry for somebody, feel schadenfreude... (as you can observe in the comments)
- seawsurf 9mo agoI hate this writing as well. Is not about technology and finance? The reporter writes as if it is a novel.
- alephnerd 9mo agoIt's written in "HBS case study" tone. You might not like it, but frankly, ICs aren't the target demographic anyhow.
- achr2 9mo agoThey didn't tweak their prompt styling request enough... The ChatGPT world is depressing.
- webstrand 9mo agoDoesn't seem like LLM generated text to me. Even prior to ChatGPT some journalists preferred to write in a novel-style with extraneous fluff like that.
- idonotknowwhy 9mo agoAgreed. Not a single "this isn't just X, it's Y" in the entire article. Actually quite refreshing to read something written by a human for once.
- afavour 9mo agoThe sheer number of em dashes in the text suggest to me that the reporter didn't write anything, ChatGPT did.
- zengineer 9mo agoThe other day I read some old blog posts of mine (~2016) and they contain "em dashes". According to you they were all written by AI.
- swiftcoder 9mo agoYou know posh schools teach people to write with em dashes too, right?
- progbits 9mo agoNot to use them excessively. Good human writing has variety and style. AI articles are the same boring template, doesn't matter if it's emdash or not.
- swiftcoder 9mo agoA lot of people don't actually learn good writing at their fancy schools - but they do they learn the stylistic quirks that signal one went to the fancy school. How do you think it got in the LLM training set in the first place?
- bee_rider 9mo agoIf we give up every bit of punctuation that ChatGPT uses, written language will become much worse.
- dartharva 9mo agoFor the last time.. Word (the program very popularly used by many reporters across the world to write articles) automatically autocorrects hyphens to em-dashes according to the default loaded grammar rules for En-US. The existence of em-dashes in an article does NOT immediately imply GenAI slop.
- m-schuetz 9mo agoChatGPT learned to use em dashes from somewhere. They were widely used before LLMs.
- indymike 9mo agoClickbait permeates all things. Next thing you know they'll be adding ____ (insert favorite controversial world leader) enraged to the headline.
- paulryanrogers 9mo agoOr perhaps insert favorite controversial world leader will insert themselves into the real facts of the story behind the title
- ai-x 9mo agoThe most important signal is actually that demand is far exceeding supply and there is no AI Bubble
- Afforess 9mo agoExcept this makes no sense. There isn’t enough power to run all these new chips, so the demand must be speculative, not growth.
- basscomm 9mo ago> I dislike this dramatization in reporting of mundane facts. Okay, but this isn't a news article, it's an opinion piece on some guy's substack.
- embedding-shape 9mo ago"PopFi"
- quitit 9mo agoThere may be an arrogance that we're not vulnerable to these tactics because the topics of conversation are science and tech focused, rather than celebrity culture. However this post and the comments really debunk that - here we have a clear example of the author turning these people into characters, archetypes of reality tv, and inviting the reader to have an emotional response to what is potentially interesting, but actually just the mundane business matter of dealing with demand spikes. A normal conversation might take a step back, above the emotional baiting, and instead lament on how TSMC weren't able to develop sufficient supply capacity in time to maximise yield across not just these clients, but many others whom are looking to get involved in the AI hype train. Instead we're seeing something quite different, and quite uninformed. It's reading like a gossip post from an instagram thread. I notice that HN is actually more vulnerable to these types of conversations. Maybe it's because HN likely weights towards an ASD audience, which has less experience in handling socially driven narratives. I do definitely see here more of the "one-sided" conversation that is typical of ASD.