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Is it me, or does the article sound like LLM output? The pattern "It's not mere X — it's Y", occurs like 4 times in the text :v
by temp7000 6mo ago
Is it me, or does the article sound like LLM output?
The pattern "It's not mere X — it's Y", occurs like 4 times in the text :v
- figmert 6mo ago> :v I guess I found the millennial. I haven't seen that in so long!
- kbouw 6mo agoYou would be correct. Ran the article through GPTZero, 100% AI.
- 71bw 6mo agoWould not trust any of these tools in the slightest.
- xd1936 6mo agohttps://redd.it/13mft8s https://redd.it/13mft8s
- rationalist 6mo agouser-friendly Old reddit link: https://old.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/13mft8s/apparently_moses_wrote_the_book_of_genesis_with/ https://old.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/13mft8s/apparently...
- devmor 6mo agoAI detectors that use text as a basis are not real. It is fundamentally impossible for them to exist.
- watsonL1F7 6mo ago[flagged]
- HarHarVeryFunny 6mo agoHuh? LLM output doesn't have the variety of human output, since they operate in fixed fashion - statistical inference followed by formulaic sampling. Additionally, the statistics used by LLMs are going be be similar across different LLMs since at scale its just "the statistics of the internet". Human output has much more variety, partly because we're individuals with our own reading/writing histories (which we're drawing upon when writing), and partly because we're not so formulaic in the way we generate. Individuals have their own writing styles and vocabulary, and one can identify specific authors to a reasonable degree of accuracy based on this. It's a bit like detecting cheating in a chess tournament. If an unusually high percentage of a player's moves are optimal computer moves, then there is a high likelihood that they were computer generated. Computers and humans don't pick moves in the same way, and humans don't have the computational power to always find "optimal" moves. Similarly with the "AI detectors" used to detect if kids are using AI to write their homework essays, or to detect if blog posts are AI generated ... if an unusually high percentage of words are predictable by what came before (the way LLMs work), and if those statistics match that of an LLM, then there is an extremely high chance that it was written by an LLM. Can you ever be 100% sure? Maybe not, but in reality human written text is never going to have such statistical regularity, and such an LLM statistical signature, that an AI detector gives it more than a 10-20% confidence of being AI, so when the detector says it's 80%+ confident something was AI generated, that effectively means 100%. There is of course also content that is part human part AI (human used LLM to fix up their writing), which may score somewhere in the middle.
- mtremsal 6mo agoAn AI slop pattern so widespread it’s now referred to as “it’s not pee pee it’s poo poo”.
- caminante 6mo agoRan it through Claude, Grok, whatever...for me, they all flagged issues (no sources, punchy phrases with repetition,...) with these content farms. My favorite: couldn't even prove the author is a real person. They all found no record!
- itissid 6mo agoAs someone said we live in a strange but amazing era, where although it has never been easier to be deceived, but its _also_ much easier to uncover said deception especially on the internet.
- walthamstow 6mo agoIt's much faster and simpler to assume everything on the internet is crooked
- ryandvm 6mo agoOr at least think you've uncovered deception. It's not clear to me yet that any of these "AI detectors" are reliable, and if they are, it's just an arms race.
- BeetleB 6mo agoI don't care if it's written by an LLM. The problem with the article is the complete lack of details. No benchmarks on the iPhone capable models. No details, whatsoever. Human or LLM - the article is a whole lot of nothing.
- doliveira 6mo agoFunnily enough, to me these aphorisms (?) sound almost like the replicant test in Blaze Runner. Like these are the unit bit of "nudging"
- nozzlegear 6mo agoLLM, recite your baseline: "It's not just X – it's Y." Slop. "You're absolutely right!" Slop. "And this is key –" Slop. "This is a nuanced topic." Slop. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrP-_T-h9YM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrP-_T-h9YM
- veunes 6mo agoThis article is all fluff because real benne marketing. If they mentioned that a 4B model on an iPhone 16 drains 15% of the battery for a single long prompt and triggers hard thermal throttling after 20 seconds, nobody would be clicking on headlines about "commercial viability" fwiw
- Domenic_S 6mo agoI ran several Gemma 4 quants on my 24gb mac mini, and with proper context size tuning they're quick enough I guess, but I would really love to see them working well on an iphone with 2/3gb of ram...
- nextaccountic 6mo agoThe problem is not authorship. It's the lack of substance
- dax_ 6mo agoThis is just prompting an LLM and just dumping it on the site (which is clearly what is happening here, all the articles show the same signs of AI output, no human writing, no style, as far as I can tell). If this is the level of care that goes into news articles, then we're doomed. What will ultimately happen is that AI summarizes AI articles, which got summarized from another AI article, which got summarized from another AI article, .. and after enough rewriting all facts will be gone from articles. I don't care to read this slop, and I'm shocked people are so readily accepting this new state of affairs.
- Andrex 6mo agoI can't believe you'd impugn the high moral standards of "gizmoweek dot com".
- altruios 6mo agoIt is like the AI is training us to avoid certain language patterns. I rebel at the hostage of weak language: for strong language is next.
- Melatonic 6mo agoThe mighty semi colon prepares for its return !
- wtyvn 6mo agoSmells like slop to me, looks like the site exists solely to garner search hits.
- odo1242 6mo agoIt does in fact sound like LLM output