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>The user is never asked. Never told. LinkedIn’s privacy policy does not mention it. OMG is literally every article written with LLMs these days I just can't a
by VladVladikoff 7mo ago
>The user is never asked. Never told. LinkedIn’s privacy policy does not mention it.
OMG is literally every article written with LLMs these days I just can't anymore. It's all so tiring.
- SecretDreams 7mo agoThat's the intention. Make the internet so unbelievably shit that you just accept and move on.
- grub5000 7mo agoThis is incredibly normal language and quite close to how I would write this quote, so what makes you think this is LLM text?
- GavinMcG 7mo agoIt’s the fake drama. Punchy sentences. Contrast. And then? A banal payoff.
- ocimbote 7mo agoYou're absolutely right.
- kitsune1 7mo ago[dead]
- slfnflctd 7mo agoHuman journalists and marketing copy writers have been writing like this for at least 50 years, if not considerably longer. I am exhausted by so many people calling writing out as AI without sufficient proof other than writing style. Some things are more obvious, sure... maybe I'm just too stupid to see a lot of the rest of it? But so much of what gets called out seems incredibly familiar to me compared with traditional print media I've been reading my entire life. I'm starting to wonder if a lot of people just have poor literacy skills and are knee-jerk labeling anything that looks well written as AI.
- fleebee 7mo agoYou're right that (some) marketing copy writers have been writing in this style for decades, but suddenly every second tech blogger has assumed the same voice in the past 2 years. Not everyone is as sensitive to it. I read this crap daily so I've developed an awareness and I'm confident in calling it out. I don't think I've personally seen a single false positive on HN. If anything, too much slop goes through uncontested.
- cyral 7mo ago> If anything, too much slop goes through uncontested. It's actually insane opening up /r/webdev and similar subreddits and seeing dozens of AI authored posts with 50+ comments and maybe a single person calling it out. Makes me feel crazy. It's not as much of a problem here, but there is absolutely a writing style that suddenly 50% of submissions are using. It's always to promote something and watching people fall for it over and over again is upsetting.
- GavinMcG 7mo agoI think one factor is the lack of variation. Sure, a copywriter might use those techniques as a hook, but there’s far more content using them paragraph after paragraph after paragraph than I’ve ever seen before. You might also reframe how you read those comments. Perhaps when people are labeling a piece as “written by AI,” they’re just conveying that they perceive it to use the same “voice” that LLMs use, and judge that voice negatively. Sometimes people say things non-literally and don’t need proof.
- nojs 7mo agoIt’s 100% LLM text. HN really needs a button “flag as slop”.
- dd8601fn 7mo agoI've had the same thought pretty often, lately. I get it... I'm not a good writer. It just sucks that now people are going to assume the stuff I said isn't even me. I guess I always scored pretty low on the Turing test and never even knew it.
- cyral 7mo agoIt might be normal language but lets say maybe 5% of real human blog writers use short punchy phrases like that. The noticeable problem is now its 50% of blog posts because almost every single AI authored post uses the same phrasing, it's tiring knowing you are just reading ChatGPT output. Its usually part of a low-effort funnel to guide you to some product/service.
- antonyt 7mo agoIs it actually stylistically close to how you'd write it? If I reformulate your comment in slop style I'd do something like: The language is natural. Normal. Human. Who could question its authenticity? The original example isn't the worst offender, but even small offenders stick out when you can't escape seeing this kind of thing everywhere.
- dwringer 7mo agoThe other replies have explained what's jumping out but I'd agree that without the other surrounding sentences of the article's introduction I'd be inclined to think that quoted sentence by itself might be human. The full text, however, doubles down on the AI-smelling constructions and IMHO almost certainly indicates some AI provenance.
- blargh 7mo agowhat makes you think that? and what sets your comment appart from beeing created by an llm?
- ottah 7mo agoHow is that quote in any way demonstrative of this being written by LLM? You do know that LLMs were trained on the internet and every digitized text they could get their hands on? You are jumping at shadows, calm down already.
- Arubis 7mo agoReading (and even more so, using the tools to produce) a bunch of LLM-output writing also affects one’s writing style. Ever sat down and blown through 3-4 books by a favorite author, then written something and found yourself using similar structure, word choice, style…? This could very well be a human author that’s been exposed to a lot of LLM output (ie 95% of this site’s audience). I find myself doing this a lot, and I’m sure even more slips without my notice.
- jack_ball 7mo agoI agree that that line reads GPT-like, but it's far from a conclusive tell. One option that I wonder about is if frequent interaction with AI will begin to influence people's organic writing style.
- an0malous 7mo agoI get it — it can be frustrating to encounter so much low effort AI content these days. But I think it’s worth looking at the bright side here: the increase in our production of entropy from GPU consumption will hasten the heat death of the universe. Would you like me to suggest some AI summarizer tools you could use to more efficiently read AI generated content in the meantime?
- jijijijij 7mo agoNice try, but you em-dashed like a filthy human. The drone has been dispatched.
- sweetheart 7mo agothe drone that gives hugs, right??? right????
- jijijijij 7mo agoLet me think about that... Yes. Resistance puts the possibility of hugs on the stool, so to speak.
- BrokenCogs 7mo agoYou're absolutely right!
- nusl 7mo agoWhy don't we train LLMs on the entire internet every day? Then we don't even need to read anything. Reading is something people did in 2025
- throwawayq3423 7mo ago> I get it — well done
- beejiu 7mo agoLLMs didn't invent the "Rule of Three".
- hybrid_study 7mo agoWho cares if it’s LLM written or assisted writing? What matters is the content!
- nickvec 7mo agoEhh… this quote alone is pretty benign. If you didn’t mention it, I wouldn’t have even considered the possibility of AI.
- spopejoy 7mo ago> It's all so tiring. What's tiring is a comment like this. If you don't like the article don't read it -- and don't comment.
- kitsune1 7mo ago[dead]
- BirAdam 7mo agoOne cannot make an accurate assessment of liking or disliking an article without having read the article.
- spopejoy 7mo agoThe OP's complaint is literally about a one-sentence paragraph, the second in the article. Plenty of warning to avoid the rest and move on, but LLM shaming is it's own reward perhaps?
- ugh123 7mo agoHow can you tell?
- Biganon 7mo agoNothing in this sentence is evidence of AI. What's next? "There's punctuation in the sentence, must be AI" ?
- elestor 7mo agoI don’t like AI slop as much as the next guy, but that part doesn’t seem so bad? Sounds like something anyone could write.