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Is this post AI-written? The repeated lists with highlighted key points, the "it's not just [x], but [y]" and "no [a] just [b]" scream LLM to me. It would be go
by its_notjack 8mo ago
Is this post AI-written? The repeated lists with highlighted key points, the "it's not just [x], but [y]" and "no [a] just [b]" scream LLM to me. It would be good to know how much of this post and this project was human-built.
- evanjrowley 8mo agoPerhaps people have mimicked the style because LLMs have popularized it and clearly it serves some benefit to readers.
- mkoubaa 8mo agoLife imitates art, even when that art is slop
- ludwik 8mo agoPerhaps LLMs have mimicked the style because authors have popularized it and clearly it serves some benefit to readers.
- evanjrowley 8mo agoIt's a cycle.
- PKop 8mo ago> have popularized it It's hated by everyone, why would people imitate it? You're inventing a rationale that either doesn't exist or would be stupider than the alternative. The obvious answer here it they just used an LLM. > and clearly it serves some benefit to readers. What?
- evanjrowley 8mo agoThen why does every vibe-coded "Show HN" app have it in README.md? Surely authors would edit it out if it was true that everyone hates it.
- minitech 8mo agoMaybe vibe-coding Show HN apps is correlated with low effort and bad taste.
- FeteCommuniste 8mo ago> It's hated by everyone, why would people imitate it? It could be involuntary. People often adopt the verbal tics of the content they read and the people they talk with.
- make3 7mo agoI think that the style itself is very clear and has its advantages, it's hated only because it's from LLMs, which are not liked when used without judgement (which is often the case). So, someone who falls on the side of not completely hating LLMs for everything (which is most people), could easily copy the style by accident.
- esseph 8mo ago> Is this post AI-written? What if it was? What if it wasn't? What if you never find out definitely? Do you wonder that about all content? If so, doesn't that get exhausting?
- amenhotep 8mo agoYeah, it does. Congratulations, you figured out why the future is going to be fucking awful.
- FeteCommuniste 8mo ago"What if you can't tell the difference?" Yeah, what if it becomes impossible to spot who's a lazy faker who outsourced their thinking? Doesn't that sound great?!
- wizzwizz4 8mo agoWhat's exhausting is getting through a ten-paragraph article and realising there was only two paragraphs of actual content, then having to wade back through it to figure out which parts came from the prompt, and which parts were entirely made up by the automated sawdust injector.
- foxglacier 8mo agoThat's not an AI problem, it's a a general blog post problem. Humans inject their own sawdust all the time. AI, however, can write concisely if you just tell it to. Perhaps you should call this stuff "slop" without the AI and then it doesn't matter who/what wrote it because it's still slop regardless. I completely agree with your parent that it's tedious seeing this "fake and gay" problem everywhere and wonder what an unwinnable struggle it must be for the people who feel they have to work out if everything they read was AI written or not.
- esseph 8mo ago> and wonder what an unwinnable struggle it must be for the people who feel they have to work out if everything they read was AI written or not Exactly!
- efilife 8mo agoI'm so fucking tired of this
- iririririr 8mo agoI last developed for windows in the late 90s. I came back around 2017*, expecting the same nice experience I had with VB3 to 6. What a punch in the face it was... I honestly cannot fathom anyone developing natively for windows (or even OSX) at this day and age. Anything will be a webapp or a rust+egui multi-plataform developed on linux, or nothing. It's already enough the amount of self-hate required for android/ios. * not sure the exact date. It was right in the middle of the WPF crap being forced as "the new default".*
- pjmlp 8mo agoAnd yet without Proton there are no Linux games.
- iririririr 7mo agowhat that have to do with anything? does proton make current vb development as straight forward as it was on vb6?
- pjmlp 7mo agoProton allows Linux users to enjoy Windows games, developed on Windows, with Visual Studio and DirectX.
- botusaurus 8mo agoyou know why LLMs repeat those patterns so much? because that's how real humans speak
- ndtimes 8mo ago[flagged]
- Starlevel004 8mo agoReal humans don't speak in LinkedIn Standard English
- chuckadams 8mo agoLinkedIn and its robotic tone existed long before generative AI. Know what's more annoying than AI posts? Seeing accusations of AI slop for every. last. god. damned. thing.
- IshKebab 8mo agoYes that's the point. LLMs pretty much speak LinkedInglish. That existed before LLMs, but only on LinkedIn. So if you see LinkedInglish on LinkedIn, it may or may not be an LLM. Outside of LinkedIn... probably an LLM. It is curious why LLMs love talking in LinkedInglish so much. I have no idea what the answer to that is but they do.
- roywiggins 7mo agoIt is at least thematically appropriate, of course a corporate-built language machine speaks like LinkedIn. The actual mechanism, I have no clue.
- swiftcoder 8mo ago"LinkedIn Standard English" is just the overly-enthusiastic marketing speak that all the wannabe CEOs/VCs used to spout. LLMs had to learn it somewhere
- zahlman 8mo agoI was on the fence about such an identification. The first "list with highlighted key points" seemed quite awkward to me and definitely raised suspicion (the overall list doesn't have quite the coherence I'd expect from someone who makes the conscious choice; and the formatting exactly matches the stereotype). But if this is LLM content then it does seem like the LLMs are still improving. (I suppose the AI flavour could be from Grammarly's new features or something.)
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- groundzeros2015 8mo agoYes. It appears that way
- scotty79 8mo agoI love the style it was written in. I felt a bit like reading a detective novel, exploring all terrible things that happened and waiting for a plot twist and hero comming in and saving the day.
- frankohn 8mo agoI analyzed the test using Pangram, which is apparently reliable, it say "Fully human Written" without ambiguity.[1] I personally like the content and the style of the article. I never managed to accept going through the pain to install and use Visual Studio and all these absurd procedures they impose to their users. [1] https://www.pangram.com/history/300b4af2-cd58-4767-aced-c4d209fd9106/?ucc=lWJx96GJlQS https://www.pangram.com/history/300b4af2-cd58-4767-aced-c4d2...
- OsrsNeedsf2P 8mo agoThis honestly just tells me that Panagram is hot garbage
- FeteCommuniste 8mo agoThese days I'm always wondering whether what I'm reading is LLM-slop or the actual writing of a person who contracted AI-isms by spending hours a day talking to them.
- 22c 7mo ago> "The key insight is..." This was either written by Claude or someone who uses Claude too much. I wish they could be upfront about it.
- Melonai 7mo agoIt's interesting... Different LLM models seem to have a few sentence structures that they seem to vastly overprefer. GPT seems to love "It's not just X, it's Y", Claude loves "The key insight is..." and Gemini, for me, in every second response, uses the phrase "X is the smoking gun". I hear the smoking gun phrase around 5 times a day at this point.
- christianqchung 7mo agoHave you noticed that your username is literally "its_notjack"?
- RockRobotRock 7mo ago"No Visual Studio installation. No GUI. No prayer. Just a script that does exactly what it says." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Signs_of_AI_writing#Rule_of_three https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Signs_of_AI_writing#... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Signs_of_AI_writing#Negative_parallelisms https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Signs_of_AI_writing#... The shitty AI writing is so distracting I had to stop reading.