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Can't we even write a short text like this without LLMs anymore, not even when it's really important, when it's about humans against the inhumane?
by 9dev 5mo ago
Can't we even write a short text like this without LLMs anymore, not even when it's really important, when it's about humans against the inhumane?
- Jasp3r 5mo agoHere is the trick:
- bklosky 5mo agoit's wild to me how many AI written articles get front page on HN
- garciansmith 5mo agoI'm always amazed too. I waste so much time clicking on links like that only to find slop that just wastes my time. I'm guessing a huge number of people never even bother to click on the article and just comment based on the title, so there's that. Then there's cases where they are sympathetic to the subject or opinion and talk about that in the comments and ignore that the machine-written article doesn't actually contribute to the conversation at all.
- da_grift_shift 5mo agoYeah. If the "don't post AI generated comments" guideline was extended to cover posts, I wonder what % of recent front page articles would be impacted.
- ranger_danger 5mo agoEither way how could that even be enforced? Even if it's "painfully obvious", that's not proof.
- red-iron-pine 5mo agoYou're on Y-Combinator here, a start-up incubator all about AI and launching new things, that literally used to be run by Sam Altman, and that was the launching pad of OpenAI. And you're surprised there is a lot of AI content? bots are like 50% of the internet now brah: https://cybersecuritynews.com/bots-surpass-humans-in-web-traffic/ https://cybersecuritynews.com/bots-surpass-humans-in-web-tra...
- lezojeda 5mo ago[dead]
- josmar 5mo agoI hear you — and the problem is real
- kspacewalk2 5mo agoYour comment fills a genuine gap
- stephbook 5mo agoYour observation is spot on. (Gemini Pro)
- throwaway29812 5mo ago[dead]
- yuriyguts 5mo agoThis comment is load-bearing − the LLM-generated text was the smoking gun. (Claude)
- port11 5mo agoOh my god. I’m triggered. Opus 4.8 thinks everything is load-bearing, arguments, functions, classes, you name it, there’s always a few load-bearing things in every conversation.
- vodou 5mo agoI think it is great that people point out LLM generated articles here on HN. Sadly, it feels like I am slowly loosing my skill to identify LLM speak. Maybe I am getting worn out of all LLM content... So, please, list the indicators and telltale signs from the specific article or blog post (like others have done here already). At least I would appreciate it a lot.
- gusmally 5mo agoThe multiple uses of "it's worth X" made me question the authorship, for one
- joenot443 5mo ago> It is not age verification. It is identity verification. > You can change a password. You cannot change your face. > This is not a popularity contest, and refusal is not a vote you are trying to win These were a couple sentences that were immediate flags to me. There've been countless articles written on this (I can dig them up if you want), but IMO there are pretty clear semantic rhythms you start to notice. It is not foo, it is bar. You can zip, you cannot zap.
- Anoian 5mo agoAlthough these are indicators, real people also use these sometimes.
- mawadev 5mo agoMy brain skims the entire blog before reading it and if I see two short sentences with dots and negation or even one single em dash, I ctrl+w out
- xmprt 5mo agoI agree that these are signs of AI, but they're also the way that people write. I use the "it's not X it's Y" framing a lot of the time because it's a quick way to get my point across. It's probably the sign of a bad writer because I can't come up with a different/better way to say the same thing, but I'm not AI.
- dust-jacket 5mo agoExactly. I stopped reading part way through. The first thought was ... this seems like quite a lot of words to say not an awful lot of contents. And then the sentences started jumping out. > A verification regime does not need your approval — it needs your participation Ugh
- semilin 5mo agoIt is upsetting. Is it worth surrendering one's practice of thinking and communicating effectively in order to resist corporate overreach? Or is such a neglect doomed to result in the very problem of passivity that this post pushes back against?
- skort 5mo agoI also will not take any article or website seriously if it uses AI generated graphics/art.
- spopejoy 5mo agoAmen. I don't really notice the AI speak, especially if the content makes sense like TFA. But man am I tired of the "Too good to be made by a regular person, but too average in every way to be made by a graphic designer" [1] graphics. It's just so smarmy somehow, "hey isn't my article a blast with these slick graphics?" 1 - seen today in a funny nymag article about AI bodega signs: https://www.curbed.com/article/ai-slop-bodega-signage-design.html https://www.curbed.com/article/ai-slop-bodega-signage-design...
- tim333 5mo agoI think the trouble is the LLM is quite catchy and so gets more upvotes. We are losing to the clankers!
- asgeirtj 5mo agoFWIW it has one thing pointing it to be human written; the typo worthles