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The style of the blog post, with short, abrupt sentences does not captivate me. I’d like to think someone writing a book has a more interesting writing style. O
by dontdoxxme 5mo ago
The style of the blog post, with short, abrupt sentences does not captivate me. I’d like to think someone writing a book has a more interesting writing style. Or maybe LLMs have damaged me and I’m too critical of writing style now, whatever it is this doesn’t sell the book to me.
- myth_drannon 5mo agoThe author is quite prolific. Basically a blog post per day for the last couple of months!
- bigmattystyles 5mo agoTo me, that actually screams LLM. At the very least much LLM assisted.
- raincole 5mo agoEverything about this blog and author screams AI-generated. See below comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47929213 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47929213 (it's downvote-brigaded)
- nine_k 5mo agoEver read Hemingway? Short, abrupt sentences. Sometimes incomplete. Observations with invisibly attached emotions. Their rhythm. Reader's imagination completes the picture like no author could. A powerful style, merely sixty years old.
- raincole 5mo agoPeak HN moment: comparing AI-generated text to Hemingway.
- nine_k 5mo agoYou can ask your favorite LLMs to imitate Hemingway; I suppose they'd be comparably successful. What you see as "AI-generated" looks more like translation, or written in English by a non-native speaker. The author is German, it appears.
- computably 5mo ago> I suppose they'd be comparably successful. Yes, so, not particularly.
- jdougan 5mo agoHemingway's style had a lot of influence. It would not surprise me if text influenced by it is widespread in the LLM training corpus.
- estetlinus 5mo agoTwo paragraphs in and I have no idea what they’re selling me. A timeline on how to write a book? A font? A solution to a problem? Just casual lording? AI slop at its finest.
- woolion 5mo agoAt this point I've become paranoid of my own writing. The LLM style seems to have become worse with time, more formatted, having only a few syntactic template it forces everything to go through. So that spurred me to write a lot more write-ups and blogposts that were laying around. But now I'm reading my own lines wondering if that feels AI? The only thing I can be sure of are my ESL-isms, and my convoluted, unending, extremely hard to parse sentences that would just deter people from reading.