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Not OP but my frustrations come from it being impossible to ignore and outright distracting. I've found the same thing showing with Claude-coded/designed front

Not OP but my frustrations come from it being impossible to ignore and outright distracting. I've found the same thing showing with Claude-coded/designed front ends that overuse the same semi-monospaced fonts, Blue/Yellow/Red palette and rounded corner borders. It isn't that it is bad, but it often isn't fit for purpose. You're right it wont change anything, but authors shouldn't be surprised when people who care about their time/attention comment on low/no effort pieces.

spongebobstoes 3mo ago
critique of writing style isn't made better by claiming it was authored by an LLM
- SR2Z 3mo ago
  No but it's a useful shorthand to describe a type of bad writing. I also think that people should focus on substance and not if AI was used, but AI writes like shit and I find myself retching a bit when I have to read long AI-written documents. Do they say something useful? Maybe, but when my eyes are glazing over because it's just so exhausting trying to parse what's written, I can't tell. I certainly think less of people when they have such poor taste that they think writing like that is acceptable.
  - jasonlotito 3mo ago
    This is just an AI comment masquerading as not trying to prove a point.
    - aeon_ai 3mo ago
      I’m as pro AI as any. Slop is slop. When the “it works but isn’t great” phrases end up slipping into a strong conceptual core, it compromises the perception of the ideas. Perhaps our AI will cater to us by rewriting the content we read, and each of us intermediate all communication with systems that make that slop bearable. Or perhaps, we learn that we kinda still need to give a shit when writing to land on the perception we’re trying to create within our readers
    - SR2Z 3mo ago
      Since you didn't address the substance, I guess we'll never know :)
  - wqaatwt 3mo ago
    To be fair internet (or rather shovelware websites like Medium) were already flooded by crap articles based on a set of templates. Of course the issue is that LLMs are actually better than the robot-humans who used to write them so now it takes more time until you figure whether it’s worth reading or not..
culopatin 3mo ago
Maybe if instead we stopped engaging they would wonder why

spongebobstoes 3mo ago

critique of writing style isn't made better by claiming it was authored by an LLM

SR2Z 3mo ago
No but it's a useful shorthand to describe a type of bad writing. I also think that people should focus on substance and not if AI was used, but AI writes like shit and I find myself retching a bit when I have to read long AI-written documents. Do they say something useful? Maybe, but when my eyes are glazing over because it's just so exhausting trying to parse what's written, I can't tell. I certainly think less of people when they have such poor taste that they think writing like that is acceptable.
- jasonlotito 3mo ago
  This is just an AI comment masquerading as not trying to prove a point.
  - aeon_ai 3mo ago
    I’m as pro AI as any. Slop is slop. When the “it works but isn’t great” phrases end up slipping into a strong conceptual core, it compromises the perception of the ideas. Perhaps our AI will cater to us by rewriting the content we read, and each of us intermediate all communication with systems that make that slop bearable. Or perhaps, we learn that we kinda still need to give a shit when writing to land on the perception we’re trying to create within our readers
  - SR2Z 3mo ago
    Since you didn't address the substance, I guess we'll never know :)
- wqaatwt 3mo ago
  To be fair internet (or rather shovelware websites like Medium) were already flooded by crap articles based on a set of templates. Of course the issue is that LLMs are actually better than the robot-humans who used to write them so now it takes more time until you figure whether it’s worth reading or not..

culopatin 3mo ago

Maybe if instead we stopped engaging they would wonder why