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Why does this article read like it's AI-generated?

• thrill 8d ago
  Why do the immediate complaints that something is AI generated feel like they're AI generated?
  • Dibes 8d ago
    I usually don't complain about stuff being AI generated. But in this case, regardless of HOW it was written/generated, it reads exactly like claudese and frankly I am so exhausted of reading that particular voice that I made it half way through this article before I just couldn't do it anymore. I really don't care if AI was used, I care that it is readable. And frankly, it isn't.
    • AnimalMuppet 8d ago
      "That particular voice". Yeah. Different authors should have different voices. Having them all sound the same is like having all your food taste the same. It makes you want to throw up after a while.
      • aytigra 8d ago
        I think you missed the point, "That particular voice" - is the claude vomit that I have to consume everyday and it makes me shudder every time I see it.
        • AnimalMuppet 8d ago
          No, I don't think I did. That voice grates on you. It grates on all of us. But it would grate on us less if we didn't hear it all the time - if it wasn't half of the words coming at us. Dibes said, "I am so exhausted of reading that particular voice that I made it half way through this article before I just couldn't do it anymore." I think what I said is exactly to his point.
  • jawilson2 8d ago
    What about that comment sounds AI generated?
• genericone 8d ago
  It's not only AI that uses em-dashes, but AI only seems to use em-dashes. And there's an ellipsis ascii char in there too (not 3 periods in sequence, a single ellipsis char), somewhat of another AI tell.
  • nagaiaida 8d ago
    phones let you type … effortlessly
    • IsTom 8d ago
      Yeah, and it's alt+k on my default keyboard layout on debian… I think some punctuation is available on macos as well — so perhaps it's a windows-ism that «only AI can use punctuation».
• imwally 8d ago
  Lots of em dashes. “Read that clause again” “That’s the whole thing in one sentence” “Here’s why that breaks” “Same shape, exactly” “Here’s the cruel part” “But look at the shape of it”
• jchw 8d ago
  The answer to your question is very simple.
• harladsinsteden 8d ago
  Why is that important? If the point is well made, if the content is interesting, why should I care whether a human or an LLM wrote it? Most of us don't seem to care anymore if the _code_ is written by AI, so why should we care if other _content_ is written by AI?
  • operatingthetan 8d ago
    Because I don't care what a machine "thinks" I care what a real human thinks. We are losing the internet's remaining culture by consuming this type of content.
  • Dibes 8d ago
    To restate what I put elsewhere, I genuinely don't think I care much for how it was written. The problem is that it felt exhausting to read and was chock full of the same claudese voice that makes claude so infuriatingly exhausting to read. I gave it a try and gave up halfway through. If it was AI generated but was a good read that conveyed a central point/theme, I wouldn't be complaining. This at least is trying to argue a single point, but it does so in what feels like at least 10x the word count.
• jawilson2 8d ago
  Here's the honest truth: it's AI-generated. 80% of this is AI-prose-tropes. The tropes are load bearing. (Any other ai-isms I can blast in? Probably)