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is the author of this post in thread? i do not like the AI voice it reads like.

• Cpoll 3mo ago
  I didn't notice any obvious markers, weird prose, or meandering in this one.
  • jbotz 3mo ago
    It's rather full of "it's not X, it's Y" and expository paragraph followed by short sentence counter-point, and "read that again". But no, I don't think it's AI, I think it's just written in a style that happens to be an attractor for LLMs.
    • wilbo 3mo ago
      I also got strong AI vibes, but I enjoyed the content. I thought it was a interesting summary of topics I've read many times before and even if the content was AI-assisted, does it matter? It seems there was a strong guiding hand in presenting a popular topic in a new way.
      • ekelsen 3mo ago
        It matters because I don't like the style. I wouldn't like it if a human wrote it. I don't like the style so much that I won't read things written with it. So maybe she had something interesting to say, but it was not communicated to me because I bounced.
        • tanseydavid 3mo ago
          And then you came to tell the rest of us that "you did not read it?" Why do that?
    • ekelsen 3mo ago
      I would believe she wrote it in this style if you can point to any of her writing pre 2022 that is similar in style. Does that exist? Genuinely curious.
      • toddmorey 3mo ago
        “Carlyn Beccia is an award-winning author and illustrator of 13 books.”
        • ekelsen 3mo ago
          All of her books seem to be children's books and many of the 13 are illustrator credits. I found this blog from late 2021: https://medium.com/grimhistorian/coffee-the-sexiest-drink-in-history-e149f7abc5b0 https://medium.com/grimhistorian/coffee-the-sexiest-drink-in... I can only see the beginning of it, but to me the style is obviously different from the thread's linked article.
  • ekelsen 3mo ago
    It's clearly written by AI. I find it interesting that some people recognize it immediately and others do not. I don't know what to make of it.
    • fragmede 3mo ago
      No it's not, your detector is broken.
      • ekelsen 3mo ago
        Seems like yours is? FWIW, on your own blog, the most recent post also reads as at least AI helped "Navigator Theory". This sentence in particular sticks out: "They affect what the person notices, what they dismiss, what they measure, what they trust, and what they do when reality pushes back." The one earlier post I read does not ("toxicity of ideas"). And fwiw, online detectors seems to agree with my own judgement here.
        • fellowniusmonk 3mo ago
          I am absolutely shocked and freaked out by the number of long lived accounts on this thread that can't detect the fact that this is Ai composed.
        • fragmede 3mo ago
          Cunningham's law. :)
      • eightysixfour 3mo ago
        It absolutely was written with Claude. There are so many Claude-isms in the second half that it was hard for me to digest, despite enjoying the ideas.
        • fragmede 3mo ago
          Like what?
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• elzbardico 3mo ago
  That would be disappointing, as the author is a fairly known writer.
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