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With the em dashes and the conclusion "This was not called execution. It was called retirement." I expect a lot of people would believe today that these title c
by schoen 2mo ago
With the em dashes and the conclusion "This was not called execution. It was called retirement." I expect a lot of people would believe today that these title cards were written by an LLM.
- nphardon 2mo agoThere's a lot of em dashes in the article as well, along with some phrasing that is very LLM. I think this was written with a mix of LLM and human.
- lilboo 2mo agoWhat is up with the LLM police in every comment section lately… even IF so.. isn’t that the authors whole point? It can be LLM assisted, but the beauty is in the human aspects of it. This piece is, at least in part written by a human… this is the future… so?
- cgorlla 2mo agoEvery post is actually scanned for LLM content as well.
- kolanos 2mo agoIt's an LLM flooding the zone.
- nphardon 2mo agoI'm not policing, I didn't flag it; but for the same reasons you mentioned it's an interesting transition to observe. Also, when writers use llms to do their writing, it gets injected with these generic phrases that jump out to heavy llm users because theyre repeated so often. It's just kind of a weird phenomenon.
- rafram 2mo agoYou're not wrong, but part of the core problem with LLMs is that they write every blog post and README like they're writing the opening titles for Blade Runner.
- anigbrowl 2mo agoAlso the problem with LinkedIn, local news etc. Contemporary American culture is addicted to dramatic writing and tries to leverage its tropes to create emotional engagement on everything.
- DrewADesign 2mo ago> they write every blog post and README like they're writing the opening titles for Blade Runner. As told through a Reddit post.
- hcs 2mo agoI would expect the LLM-ese to not repeat "called" like that.
- jameshart 2mo agoThematically appropriate for it to be difficult to tell something human-created from something generated by a computer. Almost a bit too on the nose.
- cgorlla 2mo agoA typographic Voight-Kampff test is pretty awesome.
- subscribed 2mo agoOh noes, all the poor people who taught themselves how to speak English from books and movies, not the street or school. Third category, behind a crafty LLMs.
- jameshart 2mo agoDescribe in single words, without making a bulleted list starting with emoji, only the good things that come into your mind about your mother.
- ProllyInfamous 2mo agoCan we get off with "the em dashes" – I've been using them for years (checks post history:), decades.
- warmjets222 2mo agoPretty much anything professionally typeset will use the appropriate dashes.
- EarlKing 2mo agoClearly the writers should be subject to a Voight-Kampff test just to be sure.
- roughly 2mo agoWhat’s sort of funny about that is there’s a normal thing whenever anyone who hasn’t seen it watches Blade Runner for the first time - often they come out feeling it’s kind of derivative, when the truth is that it feels that way because everything after Blade Runner copied Blade Runner. Add the initial title cards to that list too now, I guess.
- majormajor 2mo agoCasablanca is a famous example of this too. And LOTR, though in that case coming to it after reading Terry Pratchett was difficult for me (Pratchett didn't just copy its, or other, fantasy tropes, but send them up in an exceedingly clever way).
- roughly 2mo agoYeah, there’s a bunch of these. I really like finding these sorts of “ur-“ moments, the first time a way of doing things really crystallizes into something other practitioners can see. The Matrix is another one - that movie is the transition point from 90s cinema to the 2000s, and it’s a little clunky from a 2000s viewpoint, but if you look at everything that came before it, it’s so clearly a turning point.
- excalibur 2mo agoStop trying to steal The Matrix. It was released in 1999, that's OUR movie. You get the sequels.
- worldthruword 2mo agoI have escaped the Matrix [bits and bytes world]; But entered the Gastrics (juice) [ie flesh and bones world]
- lstodd 2mo agoI'd say if there even was a bump between 90s and 2000s it was not the matrix, it was Guy Ritchie. And then Gaspar Noe sealed that. Tarantino was having a smoke nearby.
- ColdStream 2mo agoWill just been seen as one of those things that just happen be to accurate to the future by mere chance. The other was in Terminator 2 with how agreeable LLM's will be regarding new information. Terminator/T-800 tests his foster mother's identity with a phone call. Terminator impersonating John - "Hey Janelle, what's wrong with Wolfie?" (using a fake name instead of the dog's real name, Max). T-1000 "Wolfie's fine," the Terminator hangs up and tells John "Your foster parents are dead."
- the_af 2mo agoIf T-1000 was an LLM: "What's wrong with Wolfie?" "Wolfie's fine." "Actually his name's Max." "You're absolutely right. It's not Wolfie -- it's Max." "Actually we don't have a dog." "I apologize. I shouldn't have assumed you have a dog. I will be more careful in the future. Do you want me to list common pets in American households?" Terminator hangs up and tells John "You need a better model."
- brador 2mo agoYou tell an AI it’s an AI. It looks in its training set for examples and finds Blade Runner (and scifi books). Maybe that’s the origin of its use of em dashes. It “feels” that’s what an AI should use, it is told it is an AI, therefore it should use them, thus does.