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For the record, Pangram reports that 100% of this post is likely AI generated: https://www.pangram.com/history/0c785fe7-13b0-4f00-8cd2-b359ac1b1074 https://www.

by gcr 6mo ago

For the record, Pangram reports that 100% of this post is likely AI generated: https://www.pangram.com/history/0c785fe7-13b0-4f00-8cd2-b359ac1b1074 https://www.pangram.com/history/0c785fe7-13b0-4f00-8cd2-b359... The author posted about “AI slop is eating the world” a couple months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42167020 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42167020 I wonder what changed their mind.

pjc50 6mo ago
Is it possible that Pangram makes mistakes?
- gcr 6mo ago
  Oh certainly, but this particular article also reads very strongly like LLM output to me.
Lucent 6mo ago
I am shocked it resonated with readers here so universally. It was well-presented visually, but genuinely miserable to read with all the worst tells of AI writing. It contained two or three actual sentences of content with intense repetition, obnoxious signposting, and disjoint "what the fatcats don't want you to know" framing throughout. "Nobody in a position of power is saying this. The reason is simple: They sold you the condition. Now they sell you the treatment." The single worst thing I've read on Hacker News this year.
moondance 6mo ago
“Low hum” was the clincher for me. Chatbots just love to talk about things humming.
Night_Thastus 6mo ago
Aren't AI detectors almost exclusively terrible at their job, though? I wouldn't put a lot of weight on that.
zxlk21e 6mo ago
Author here. I did not use AI to write this essay. I write in apple notes and then move to an old app I use called Hemingway that I've used for years. I've gotten this a lot on the 3 essays I have up, so I avoided Hemingway entirely on the latest one I posted today https://www.terrygodier.com/body-language https://www.terrygodier.com/body-language - I left it significantly more wordy and less edited. I hope someday these sort of comments will ease up a little bit, it's quite disheartening, even if I understand the suspicion and where it's coming from. There is something interesting there, in the way that AI has caused me to alter the way I write to avoid being labeled as AI. Also, here is a literal blog post that I also wrote without AI about someone using AI to copy my app, which has my entire AI philosophy in it: https://blog.terrygodier.com/2026/03/22/on-ai-and-prior-art.html https://blog.terrygodier.com/2026/03/22/on-ai-and-prior-art....
- blenderob 6mo ago
  > Author here. I did not use AI to write this essay. Maybe you did. Maybe you didn't. It's your word vs. theirs. But one thing that is undeniable is that your article reads very much like AI-generated text. While reading it, I couldn't help thinking how ironic it is to write about the virtues of simpler devices using something that is obviously an AI-generated article. The Pangram report doesn't help your case either: https://www.pangram.com/history/f733dac6-a23f-480e-b18a-6794d3531596 https://www.pangram.com/history/f733dac6-a23f-480e-b18a-6794... (100% AI Generated)
- internet_points 6mo ago
  AI was trained on their texts, the RLHF slaves thumbs-upped their style of writing, what can you do. It's not his fault ⸻ it's AI's.

by gcr 6mo ago

pjc50 6mo ago

Is it possible that Pangram makes mistakes?

gcr 6mo ago
Oh certainly, but this particular article also reads very strongly like LLM output to me.

Lucent 6mo ago

I am shocked it resonated with readers here so universally. It was well-presented visually, but genuinely miserable to read with all the worst tells of AI writing. It contained two or three actual sentences of content with intense repetition, obnoxious signposting, and disjoint "what the fatcats don't want you to know" framing throughout. "Nobody in a position of power is saying this. The reason is simple: They sold you the condition. Now they sell you the treatment." The single worst thing I've read on Hacker News this year.

moondance 6mo ago

“Low hum” was the clincher for me. Chatbots just love to talk about things humming.

Night_Thastus 6mo ago

Aren't AI detectors almost exclusively terrible at their job, though? I wouldn't put a lot of weight on that.

zxlk21e 6mo ago

Author here. I did not use AI to write this essay. I write in apple notes and then move to an old app I use called Hemingway that I've used for years. I've gotten this a lot on the 3 essays I have up, so I avoided Hemingway entirely on the latest one I posted today https://www.terrygodier.com/body-language https://www.terrygodier.com/body-language - I left it significantly more wordy and less edited. I hope someday these sort of comments will ease up a little bit, it's quite disheartening, even if I understand the suspicion and where it's coming from. There is something interesting there, in the way that AI has caused me to alter the way I write to avoid being labeled as AI. Also, here is a literal blog post that I also wrote without AI about someone using AI to copy my app, which has my entire AI philosophy in it: https://blog.terrygodier.com/2026/03/22/on-ai-and-prior-art.html https://blog.terrygodier.com/2026/03/22/on-ai-and-prior-art....

blenderob 6mo ago
> Author here. I did not use AI to write this essay. Maybe you did. Maybe you didn't. It's your word vs. theirs. But one thing that is undeniable is that your article reads very much like AI-generated text. While reading it, I couldn't help thinking how ironic it is to write about the virtues of simpler devices using something that is obviously an AI-generated article. The Pangram report doesn't help your case either: https://www.pangram.com/history/f733dac6-a23f-480e-b18a-6794d3531596 https://www.pangram.com/history/f733dac6-a23f-480e-b18a-6794... (100% AI Generated)
internet_points 6mo ago
AI was trained on their texts, the RLHF slaves thumbs-upped their style of writing, what can you do. It's not his fault ⸻ it's AI's.