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- q3k 7mo agoEveryone's trying to be the new thought leader enlightened technical essayist. So much fluff everywhere.
- orsorna 7mo agoWhat's wild is that with a few minutes of manual editing it would give exponential return. For instance, a lead sentence in your section saying "here's why X" that was already described by your subheading is unnecessary and could have been wholly removed.
- gzread 7mo agoYou'd have to have a good idea of how you want the document to read, which is half (or more) of the process of writing it.
- amarant 7mo agoExponential return? This is the front page of HN! What does exponential returns even look like? Are you saying this post is a few edits away from becoming a New York Times bestseller?
- orsorna 7mo agoNo, I guess I meant editing to approach a text that doesn't look rushed over (LLM generation is a subset of such poor writings) But you're right, it did hit the front page, and that says more about my sensibilities not lining up with whoever is voting the article up.
- antonvs 7mo agoIME many people aren't very capable of editing their own work effectively. It's why "editor" exists as a profession.
- therealdrag0 7mo agoThat’s pretty presumptive of how obviously the author could improve it. As someone who writes a lot of docs, I find feedback and preferences varies wildly. They may just have well made it “worse” to your preferences by hand editing it more.
- sethev 7mo agoLLMs were trained on stuff that people wrote. I get there are "tells", but don't really think people are as good at identifying AI generated text as they think they are...
- antonvs 7mo agoGood chunks of the article don't trigger this for me, but I would bet money on the final paragraph involving AI: > That's not a technical argument. It's a values argument. And it's one that the filesystem, for all its age and simplicity, is uniquely positioned to serve. Not because it's the best technology. But because it's the one technology that already belongs to you.
- afro88 7mo agoI wouldn't have picked this article as AI until I got an agent to do some writing for me and read a bunch of it to figure out if I can stand behind it. Now I see the tells everywhere "It's not this. It's that." is particularly common and I can't unsee it. (FWIW I rewrote most of the writing it generated, but it did help me figure out my structure and narrative) The problem I think with AI generated posts is that you feel like you can't trust the content once it's AI. It could be partly hallucinated, or misrepresented.
- sethev 7mo agoYeah, but "it's not X. It's Y" is a common idiom that LLMs picked up from people. That's the point i was making. And it's starting to feel like every post has at least one comment claiming that it was AI generated.
- computably 7mo agoYou don't have to be good at identifying AI generated text to detect low-effort slop.
- adi_kurian 7mo agoContractions
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- idiotsecant 7mo agoThis doesn't seem particularly AI slopped to me.
- einr 7mo ago"Not bigger than databases. Different from databases. It's not a website you go to — it's a little spirit that lives on your machine. Not a chatbot. A tool that reads and writes files on your filesystem. That's not a technical argument. It's a values argument."
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- coliveira 7mo agoI'm not a fan of AI and try to avoid it, but there is a difference from AI output published by someone knowledgeable and any other AI output that you run by yourself. If an expert looked at the result and found it to be ok, then you can have some assurance that it at least makes sense. Your own AI run doesn't mean anything, it could be 100% hallucination and a non-expert will buy it as truth.
- Joel_Mckay 7mo agoUnfortunately, LLM slop now makes up >53% of the web, and is growing. It is easy to spot the compacted token distribution unique to each model, but search engines still seem to promote nonsense content. =3 "Bad Bot Problem - Computerphile" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AjQNDCYL5Rg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AjQNDCYL5Rg "A Day in the Life of an Ensh*ttificator " https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4Upf_B9RLQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4Upf_B9RLQ
- josephg 7mo ago> If you're going to do that at least mention it's LLM output Yes, this! Please label AI generated content. Pull request written by an AI? Label it as ai generated. Blog post? Article generated with AI? Say so! It’s ok to use AI models. Especially if English is your second language. But put a disclaimer in. Don’t make the reader guess. Eg: > This content was partially generated by chatgpt Or > Blog post text written entirely by human hand, code examples by Claude code
- fragmede 7mo agoHave any outlines you'd care to share?
- heavyset_go 7mo agoNo, I don't use LLMs to write.
- malgamves 7mo agoAs the author I can assure you there’s a human behind these words. Interesting times me live in though, I find myself questioning what’s AI and what’s not often too and at the moment we’ve offloaded that responsibility to the good will of authors or platform policy which might have to change soon
- lovecg 7mo agoAs in, you used 0 AI to write or edit this text? Or some AI? I’d like to calibrate myself.
- grey-area 7mo agoWe all know the answer to that.
- meindnoch 7mo ago"there’s a human behind these words" That's a bit vague. Was the article written without the aid of LLMs? Yes or no.
- torginus 7mo agoWell, if the words were 100% hand-written, I assume he'd have said that.
- green-salt 7mo agoNice dodge! Unfortunately, this made it more obvious.
- jonmagic 7mo agoI thought it was a great post tying a lot of things I’ve been reading and thinking about together. Could care less if you used AI if it helps my brain expand and or make connections I wouldn’t have otherwise.
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- panarky 7mo agoDoes everyone just easily accuse genuine, literate humans of "cheating" with AI when there's no way they could know that? There are a lot of unique aspects of the writing in this post that LLMs don't typically generate on their own. And there's not a "delve" or "tapestry" or even a bullet point to be found. Also, accusations and complaints like this are off-topic and uninteresting. We should be talking about filesystems here, not your gut instinct AI detector that has a sky-high false-positive rate. I swear there needs to be some convention around throwing wild accusations at people you don't know based exclusively on vibes and with zero actual evidence.
- LoganDark 7mo agoWhy does everyone keep confusing Aspie writing for AI? It's not AI, it's neurodivergence.