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It's darkly amusing that while the author advises us not to let LLMs pick our words, their post includes this chunk of AI slop: "Those rethinks are load-bearin
by SupremumLimit 14d ago
It's darkly amusing that while the author advises us not to let LLMs pick our words, their post includes this chunk of AI slop:
"Those rethinks are load-bearing parts of your voice. Readers won’t put their fingers on what’s wrong, but they’ll sense that you’ve become artificially-flavored."
The metaphor at the start is AI-like weirdness too: "without pasteurizing and jacking it with corn syrup." Pasteurising is good, corn syrup is bad - what the heck am I supposed to make of it? It's nonsense.
It may even have been handwritten by the author, but it's slop nonetheless.
You may be telling yourself that you're disciplined and you're just using the LLMs for review. But while you're reading their output, the slop makes its way directly into your brain anyway - and then it drips out into your writing.
- yapfrog 14d agoThe placement of the "Those rethinks are load-bearing parts of your voice" sentence in the article makes me think the author intended the word choice
- simonw 14d agoI saw "load-bearing" there and instantly assumed Thomas was making a deliberate point that it's OK to use terms that LLMs have poisoned provided you use them effectively and in a way that adds to the piece. I'm personally furious that "load-bearing" has become an LLM tell, it's a really useful metaphor!
- tptacek 14d agoIt was a joke.
- gnabgib 14d agoRecent comments from the simonw account suggest it isn't operated directly by a human anymore /sigh/
- throwthrowuknow 13d agoartificially-flavoured is also a tic unless the author was trying to make fun of load-bearing, but it’s a bit too subtle to make the point
- kergonath 14d ago> Pasteurising is good, corn syrup is bad Pasteurising something is making it sterile. Safer, but bland and not as interesting. I guess that’s the intended metaphor.
- WaltPurvis 13d agoI suspect the author was thinking "homogenizing" but his brain picked pasteurizing by accident. Pasteurizing and homogenizing are both things done to milk, but homogenizing has an additional meaning of making something uniform (and more loosely it's often used to imply that you've made something generic, bland, and boring).