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You're absolutely right to call this out — and honestly? I want to sit with that for a moment. Here's the thing: this isn't really about AI writing. It's not ev
by garethsprice 4mo ago
You're absolutely right to call this out — and honestly? I want to sit with that for a moment. Here's the thing: this isn't really about AI writing. It's not even about coding agents. It's about something much deeper. What's genuinely worth knowing: while I generally agree, many people may not. I think there's a really interesting conversation to be had here. Thanks for naming this. It needed to be named.
(/s - Blargh, writing like that that by hand is exhausting)
- laylomo2 4mo agoI could literally feel my blood beginning to boil. You have a talent for this.
- aaronharnly 4mo agoAnd honestly? That’s rare.
- garethsprice 4mo agoHah thanks. I also feel this way rage-spotting AI-generated text everywhere these days. I have been looking into the speech patterns of LLMs lately ("unslopping" my own AI outputs) so had a bunch of the most horrible cliches memorized. Unfortunately this is a useless talent as a "reverse mechanical turk" at approx $25,000 for 1M output tokens (at 0.3 tok/sec) is not competitive in today's market.
- yawnxyz 4mo agosaying the quiet part out loud
- bix6 4mo agoCOTD! Now just slide a rick roll in there.
- mil22 4mo agoIf you hadn't used ' instead of ’, I would never have realized this was actually written by hand.
- port11 4mo agoIf you wrote this yourself, congratulations are in order. I was genuinely annoyed. It’s not easy. It’s hard. It’s not entertaining. It’s infuriating.
- esafak 4mo agoYou're absolutely right! I was at a restaurant the other day and my kid noticed how the waiter started every sentence with "Absolutely!" That reminded me of the Anthropic Super Bowl ad, and got me thinking if the waiter's speech patterns had been influenced by AI.
- garethsprice 4mo agoYes: https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.01754 https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.01754
- mohamedkoubaa 4mo agoEventually we will just speak tokenese rather than english
- port11 4mo agoNonsense. We grew up quoting our favourite shows, abhorring certain words, preferring others. This is just another cultural modification engine, like everything else humans do.
- port11 4mo agoIn my time in the US, way before LLMs, very agreeable and helpful waiters/Whole Foods staff would already be using ‘absolutely!’ in that enthusiastic manner. Helping someone out was always possible, I enjoyed that.
- wiseowise 4mo ago“Chat, raise my vitriol”