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Why's this poorly written piece on top of HN?
by ismepornnahi 5mo ago
Why's this poorly written piece on top of HN?
- trollbridge 5mo agoI rather enjoyed it. I also enjoyed reading something that did not give me the immediate impression it was AI generated.
- linkregister 5mo ago"Write a snarky, cynical opinion piece about Google in the style of Lewis Black." The Opus 4.7 output was remarkably similar to the content in this blog.
- alexgieg 5mo agoI noticed it as LLM-written by the middle of the second paragraph. The text is filled with classic rhetorical structures LLMs love making, especially the "it isn't X, it's Y" and "not A, not B, not C, but D" patterns.
- lemontheme 5mo agoIt’s the repetitive paragraph structure that raised my suspicions. Sentence. Short sentence. Noun. Noun. Noun. Sentence to reflect. Wrap it up in a bow. Sequences of short incomplete sentences, particularly in threes is such a tell
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- amazingamazing 5mo agohate pieces tend to rank highly. better if it's hating on big co
- jeffbee 5mo agoWhy is the cat in the catnip again?
- ryanisnan 5mo agoWhat makes you say that it was poorly written? I actually quite enjoyed it. I don't know if that says more about the writing, or me. In english lit as a high-school student, I always thought I did reasonably well on my assignments, but consistently got C's. It was very infuriating.
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- benhurmarcel 5mo agoIt has a good title