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hate how it all has the same tone now
by soupdiver 5mo ago
hate how it all has the same tone now
- owenthejumper 5mo agocame to say this. it's the AI writing cadence, I can smell it from 1000ft: - Lots of "The" headings - Always "why it matters" - Machine gun style cadence of short sentences
- i_think_so 5mo agoI hate that AI has stolen my emdashes and I can't use them without looking like slop. But I will die defending markdown as my preferred note taking format. They're not taking that away from me.
- g8oz 5mo agoWithout markdown I don't even know who I would be anymore.
- wolttam 5mo agoEm dashes aren’t stolen, it’s still clear from the overall voice of the text if it’s AI written or not. At least, in reasonably long sections of text. I find it can be hard to tell one way or the other in shorter texts (like comments)
- i_think_so 5mo agoJust on HN alone I think I've seen roughly 3948538902748750897520938 mentions of emdashes when others were complaining about slop in the past 2 months. It might as well be the unofficial slop logo. Folks are treating it like a dead giveaway. I feel like a school friend of mine has been taken from me.
- junofan 5mo agoIt’s just people who don’t read books outing themselves. Ignore.
- dwedge 5mo agoEven bookz aee ruined for me now. I was reading careless people and hate all the emdashes even though in a book it's just normal
- twoodfin 5mo agoThe real dead giveaway is that the writing is bad.
- DANmode 5mo agoIndeed: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47921359 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47921359 and the comments above it
- yomismoaqui 5mo agoHow about not caring about what people on the internet say about your writing using emdashes? They are a false positive signal for identifying AI texts anyway.
- i_think_so 5mo agoIt's not what they say, it's what they click on. Unfortunately, in a place like this, if a bunch of people falsely accuse you of being a slop spreader your karma drops like a rock. Can you imagine how hard it is to start up a new Reddit account lately? Even in a small and isolated community of niche enthusiasts just getting to the point where your posts aren't auto-modded takes serious effort. One stray emdash and you can lose it. Ask me how I know. Oh yay, I'm in HN jail again. "You're posting too fast." Faster than once per 30 minutes? Sigh.
- IanCal 5mo agoI felt like this with the word delve. Seemed like nobody had ever heard the word before, and that the only possible way it’d be written was if an llm did it - but it’s just a nice word.
- sleepybrett 5mo agothe premiere golang debugger is called delve. Also you must not hang out w/ many ttrpgers.
- IanCal 5mo agoI mean I use it and then it seemed like everyone was acting like it it was a weird llm only word.
- SoftTalker 5mo agoDelve was used a lot in corporate writing. A lot of the so-called "whitepapers" that businesses like to publish to show how smart they are were ingested in training models.
- kandros 5mo agoconvergence that we see in all kind of medium when some things are considered “working better” (true or not) AI writing takes these to an extreme but we have see the same happening everywhere even before AI
- Groxx 5mo agoI can't tell if my main source of hate there is the homogeneity itself, or that it's excessively marketing-flavored (fluffy and aggrandizing, mere inches from "our incredible journey..." at all times).