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I stopped reading almost immediately. The stylistic choices in the writing just felt like LLM to me. Examples: "depth estimation that beats PyTorch on CPU in h
by interpol_p 2mo ago
I stopped reading almost immediately. The stylistic choices in the writing just felt like LLM to me. Examples:
"depth estimation that beats PyTorch on CPU in half the memory" — "…beats X in Y…"
"Most LocalAI backends wrap somebody
else’s engine, and that is the right default." — "…and that is the right"
"MLX and the rest are maintained by people who are better at those models than we are" — "better at those models than we are" — it's this thing that LLMs do where they are kind of weirdly confident but overly deferential
"This post is about what those ports buy" — "…buy" used in this context
"Same model, 1.31x the speed" — "Same X, something Y" — it's this overconfident yet deferential writing style
The further I read, the more tells there are. I find it incredibly tiring to read LLM generated prose and I'm not sure why. Is it because I'm aware it's not human written and have an unconscious bias? Or is it because the style is just full-on, "Not X but Y. Those performance gains are bought, not earned. This stops, that starts. Read on, or don't, that's the follow-up"
- layer8 2mo agoAlso, “honest reading” — without any context explaining why one would contemplate a dishonest reading.
- lelanthran 2mo agoNow that you point it out, there are quite a few tells, still not as many as most of the slop that gets posted here. I think it's because of the laggy scrolling that I didn't read the whole thing anyway, just the first few screens.
- MattPalmer1086 2mo agoFor me, it's that AI writing is always trying to be clever for every single point it makes (and constantly uses the same language patterns when doing so). Its like listening to an insufferable clever dick, who is not as bright as they think they are. You would also find it incredibly irritating if a human talked like that
- nnevatie 2mo ago[dead]
- PatronBernard 2mo agoWhy are you using an em-dash though?
- interpol_p 2mo agoI've always used em-dash. I got familiar with the hotkeys when I started using Mac OS X in 2002. Option+Hyphen for en-dash, Option+Shift+Hyphen for em-dash. It's unfortunate that it's an LLM tell. I'm glad the LLMs haven't subsumed proper ellipses yet…
- sasaf5 2mo ago"Parity is what makes the replacement a drop-in rather than a migration." It always reads like a 14 year old arguing.
- _0ffh 2mo agoIn "biometrics that match insightface bit for bit" - the "bit for bit" thing is also something I have encountered more than once.