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This is off-topic, but I was kind of surprised to see this page written by Claude. I guess I shouldn't really be surprised, but I somehow didn't expect it.
by stavros 3mo ago
This is off-topic, but I was kind of surprised to see this page written by Claude. I guess I shouldn't really be surprised, but I somehow didn't expect it.
- jore 3mo agoOut of curiosity - how did you figure this out? I cannot find any hints about that. Was it the language used?
- fakeBeerDrinker 3mo agoPossibly the excessive use of em dashes. Just a guess.
- mohammedmsgm 3mo ago[flagged]
- fakeBeerDrinker 3mo agoReply to the parent, not me. I understand this.
- usui 3mo agoI often see replies to AI-generated posts being pointed out here asking what makes it obvious. Is it that difficult to notice the indicators? Is it mostly undetected by English-as-a-second-language speakers, people inexperienced with generative AI, or is it something else?
- vidarh 3mo agoI rather think the surprise is a result of technical users wildly overestimating how obvious these markers are to people.
- zackkrida 3mo agolanguage, structure. look how much negation there is. the construction "no A, no B, no, C" is used several times. or another example, the following sentence: "handlers/ is flat — no subdirectories" who writes like this? you'd just write "handlers/ is a flat folder" or similar.
- petercooper 3mo ago"it doesn't silently go unnoticed", "would be silently inert", "instead of silently overwriting", "you can never silently overwrite" The biggest tell for me is overuse of the term "silently". "quietly" is another one you often see from Claude in particular. Models love adverbs for whatever reason, whereas a human writer would use them in moderation for emphasis or prefer terms like "by accident".
- IanCal 3mo agoAccidental things and silent things are very different. Accidental means you didn't mean to do it, silent means you don't know you've done it (or might not if you want to get picky, you could notice).
- ameliaquining 3mo agoIn my experience, "silently overwrite" appeared regularly in technical writing long before LLMs were a thing, because it's a useful concept to be able to point at. "Silently go unnoticed" is kind of redundant, though.
- haunter 3mo agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Signs_of_AI_writing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Signs_of_AI_writing
- stavros 3mo agoI can't quite tell you, it wasn't something specific, Claude's writing is just a specific sort of punchy. The "directly on X - no Y, no Z, no A" and the "this is the part you no longer have to do" just smell a lot like Claude. Also "removes that layer entirely", "they map cleanly onto each other", it's all just Claude. It's how you see a painting and you know it's by Picasso, let's say, or you read an author and you know it's Hemingway. Everyone has their own unique style, and so does Claude. It's just that Claude is the most prolific writer in human history now.
- dools 3mo agoHave you ever “wired” anything to anything else when developing software? No, because software doesn’t involve wires, but LLMs are quite convinced that it does.
- ameliaquining 3mo agoConfirmed AI: https://www.pangram.com/history/2c717a3e-a9c6-4595-96a0-1aa80f539c5b https://www.pangram.com/history/2c717a3e-a9c6-4595-96a0-1aa8...
- dist-epoch 3mo agoI finds it surprising you find it surprising. Is this the best use of a human, to write a long, detailed manual for a feature? Which most likely will be read by another LLM?
- _superposition_ 3mo agoHit the nail on the head. I find it surprising people give a fuck any more. Who likes writing documentation? Us devs being horrible at and hating to write documentation was a standard trope before llms. They do a better job and dont complain.
- codedokode 3mo agoCould it be because the author is not very confident in their English skills so they asked an LLM to translate text to a proper English?
- stavros 3mo agoIt could be, it could also be that they wanted to produce it more cheaply, could be a few valid reasons. It just looks cheap to me, and I thought companies would want to show a better face. Then again, like a sibling said, only LLMs will be reading this anyway.
- codedokode 3mo agoBut to write the text, LLM needs some source, where does it come from? You need to write something anyway.