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> I'll be writing about those next. I doubt it, you didn't write about this! You prompted it and signed your name to it.
by furyofantares 6mo ago
> I'll be writing about those next.
I doubt it, you didn't write about this! You prompted it and signed your name to it.
- rogerrogerr 6mo agoYep, I’d rather read the prompt.
- tencentshill 6mo agoKeyana Sapp is the "author" Good to know they hire that kind of incompetence at Palantir. It makes them less effective.
- sureMan6 6mo agoNot really incompetence if he hasn't looked at the article
- furyofantares 6mo agoIt always seems to be the case with these LLM blogs that if they're not about AI they are from someone heavily involved in AI, at least for now. LinkedIn: > Strategic Partnerships @ Palantir | AI Strategy
- CWuestefeld 6mo ago[flagged]
- ryandrake 6mo agoThank you. By the end of 2026, the same snarky "This article was written by LLM" comment is going to be posted on every single article on HN. It's becoming pointless to point out.
- josephg 6mo agoThere's still plenty of human authored content out there. No need to post slop on HN. My rule is: If you can't be bothered writing an article, don't expect me to read it.
- ryandrake 6mo agoI'm just saying it's probably better to just flag the article than it is to post "This was written by an LLM" for the 210th time.
- u_fucking_dork 6mo ago[flagged]
- mfro 6mo agoDon't post generated comments or AI-edited comments. HN is for conversation between humans.
- mystraline 6mo agoIts a dumb and toothless rule. How do we detect that? Counting emdashes? "If not this but that"? 'I am using AI'. (Username with bot or claw or agent) Where this is headed is a LLM being able to control a KVM connection, and the LLM and associated software doesnt exist on the VM. And naturally, you run anti-VM detection software. That way theres no API, other than the actual webpage UI. Thats ALSO a API.
- fwipsy 6mo agoI don't see which of those he violated? Also from the guidelines: "HN is for conversation between humans." Granted, it's under comment guidelines, but I think it's acting in the spirit of the rule to point out AI output.
- ryandrake 6mo agoIf you think it's AI slop, just flag the article and move on. Of all the stupid reasons people flag articles unfairly on HN, finally we have a good reason to flag them, and instead people comment.
- furyofantares 6mo agoThis is false, that I commented instead of flagging. Of course I also flagged it. I'm flagging stuff every day. It sucks. There's a problem where this stuff constantly gets upvoted, presumably because it looks OK if you skim it and it's a good jumping off point for comments. I continue to comment about it because I hope we figure out how to stop this stuff making it to the front page so often.
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- rubyfan 6mo agoHow can you tell?
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- josephg 6mo agoIts got this ... cadence: > Same earnings call. Same margin targets. Same quarterly pressure. The sense that you were choosing between competitors was a fiction that VF Corp had no incentive to correct. > That threat disciplined every material choice, every stitch count, every zipper spec. Once they all report to the same parent, the discipline evaporates. Nobody needs to outbuild anybody. The only pressure left is the one coming from above > None of this shows up on the shelf. The colors are right. The logos are crisp. The product photography is excellent. You discover what you actually bought three months in, when the stitching pulls apart at every stress point. Its thing X. Its thing Y. Its thing Z. And now I'm going to tell you about thing Q in a longer sentence.
- Someone 6mo agoI don’t see why that would be proof of being written by a LLM. It quite well can be (and I think it is) stylistic writing, hammering the message home by repetition of blows.
- josephg 6mo agoIts not proof, but its certainly a smoking gun. Even when humans use that literary device, we don't typically do it every other paragraph. It feels like a pretty safe bet that an LLM wrote most of this.
- bakugo 6mo ago"Stylistic writing" that just happens to perfectly match Claude's current default codeslopped output style, and the exact same style as the majority of posts that have made it onto the front page of HN in recent months. Just endless streams of short punchy sentences that are really just glorified bulleted lists with no substance to them. Let's quit the gaslighting and acknowledge that no human actually writes this way consistently across every paragraph, unless they're intentionally trying to write badly.
- mossTechnician 6mo agoThe slow realization this whole article was AI prompted was such a disappointment to me. I'm fascinated by the subject matter, and it seems like the person who prompted it is aware of specifics at least... But I also don't want to feed myself LLM-induced pollution that might make it into my own writing or thinking patterns.
- lynndotpy 6mo agoThe article is clearly generated text, but it's also just low quality writing. If the author _were_ aware of specifics, they could have just written the article. A list of bullet points would be better. It's almost as if they made the article Worse, on Purpose.
- fwipsy 6mo agoI missed this but now that you point it out, seems plausible. Pretty ironic on an article about quality products being replaced by cheaper ones.
- echoangle 6mo agoI envy you, I can’t even read more than a few paragraphs because this style of adding catchy sentences to make you go „wow“ every few sentences is so annoying.
- rozab 6mo agoDead horse but I find it astonishing that people can still miss AI writing like this. Don't you find it incredibly grating that every paragraph grinds to a halt while 3 sentence fragments are repeated? Same rhetorical devices. Same tone. Same pointless constructions. That's not good writing. It's cheap parlour tricks. The rhythm continues almost as though the writing is in verse—with the effect of hypnotizing the reader so they don't notice nothing is being said at all. The result? Skimmable prose. Digestible reading. Shareable content. It's not just bad style. It's actually rotting your brain. And if you can't notice that, maybe you weren't reading at all.
- genewitch 6mo agothis comment reeks of AI too, and the fact i can't tell if you're being tongue in cheek means i'm cooked
- badc0ffee 6mo agoI think the comment is mimicking the style of the article.
- NoGravitas 6mo agoI'm moderately sure it's intentional irony.
- mancerayder 6mo agoHe or she is good at satirizing it!
- dawnerd 6mo agoRealized pretty quickly too. Then when I saw the related posts at the bottom being very recent sealed it for me.
- andrewstuart2 6mo agoI mean, it's a post a week. I think that's pretty plausible. The worst part of this era is just not knowing if I'm reading generated output or genuine human thought.
- IncreasePosts 6mo agoMaybe the next expose on worseonpurpose.com will be blogging